It was a fabulous afternoon of comedy at Royal George Charing Cross Road on Sunday. Kicking off the show we had some musical madness from Barbara Fernandez and why dating dead guys has its ups and downs. Next was Kevin Collins and how to f**k with Sky Weather presenters. After Kevin was the fabulous Marigold Lately and why shops like Boots shouldn’t sell sandwiches; tuna melts and suppositories should never be in the same basket. Andrew Conway then told us of how he choses his titular comedy nights before Rob Wood and just why he was a big kid. It was then over to Isabel Brodie, a lady who knows she has a serious problem with her phone and might becoming a neurotic fruit salad. After Isabel was Roger Gewolb a man with two dodgy knees and a lousy record with sports. The wonderful Tracey Bowman who was out last night celebrating her 42nd birthday…and 137 months. Closing the first half was the hilarious Stanislav Gunko. Stan told us why, as a Russian, he rarely jokes about Ukraine: he feels it’s just not his territory.
Kicking off the second half, after a little tribute to Houdini, was the fabulous Jill Strassler and her unfortunate love of rich, smelly cheese. It was then over to Phil Smith who can’t help himself doing crap impressions of Robert Dinero. Craig Berry, who was doing his first ever gig, then told us why he struggles connecting with other people and humans in general, but he was bloody funny. After Craig was Alexander Putilin who has some serious issues with just how much Superdrug oversold itself. Hot on Alexander’s heels was Akshar Patel, a man who’s very sensitive to any mispronunciations of his name, especially if running over kids during a driving test. After Akshar was Richard Jeffery and the things that pull your relationships apart and the things you have in common, like the love of some c**k. The afternoon’s penultimate act was the one and only Gen Z Rodney Dangerfield (aka Jason June), a man out of time and out of sorts. Closing the show we had the return of a G&B OG, the fabulous Harun Musho’d (pictured). Now living up in my hometown of Glasgow, while in London Harun popped in to his old stomping ground of The Royal George to take us on a nostalgia trip of adjacent loos and laminates.