The Lamp Tavern -12th Jan

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This was my first gig at the Lamp Tavern in Dudley and I was impressed. This is a great venue, good sound and well organised by local comedian, compere and all-round promoter Phil McCullogh (Hilarious Comedy). He runs a good night and apart from being a confident and competent MC I was especially impressed with his time-management; he kept the evening running well and made sure nobody ate up too much time on stage. The joke competition was a welcome bit of light-relief and all-in-all the audience got great value for money and good variety.

With just a strict 10 minutes I did a condensed set and provided some of the "edited highlights" although this meant I missed out some of the narrative (recurring Dave's carpets gags & website & email stuff) it still worked and I was pleased with the response. There were seven ladies on the front row who seemed to have trouble keeping up and didn't seem to get it! My suspicions were confirmed when I heard that afterwards one of them had thought I was a real Health & Safety officer - I will take this as a compliment and assume my acting skills are improving.

I'd give the room and venue 8.5/10 and my own performance 7/10 - not bad at all and one I'd be happy to do again.

edited highlights