So Thursday night at The Royal George was G&B’s Growing Old Disgracefully Show, our night for acts over 40 and some sacrificial lambs who didn’t check what nights they were applying for. First to the stage was the brilliant Tony Carr. Tony was recently offered a seat on the tube by a young lady. What a bitch! It was then over to the truly puntastic Mark Rivlin and celebrity gunnery from William Shatner to Elton John. Next was Oliver Wright and great advice on what not to ask for at a restaurant before Neil Davies, aka Private Mavis, told us his kids were Welsh atheists: they don’t believe in tom Jones! After Neil we had Nicky G and the problems with underachieving four year olds. It was then over to Phillip Cornwall, who turned the night into an NA meeting for corporate buzz word addicted. SJ Wyatt then told us that the revolution will meet at Costa Coffee. SJ’s not a fan of Costa’s capitalist legacy, but their toilets are always clean. Gavin Presman was after SJ with why he hates Rishi Sunak: Rishi stole the news cycle from Kyle’s birthday. Unforgivable! Andy Obeney was next with news that he’s just had a new knee and it still has that lovely new knee smell. Closing the first half was the fabulously funny Barry Matthews. Keeping with the evening’s mood of nostalgia, Barry posted out just how times have changed by the simple example that you can now choke someone during sex, but not in an argument.
After the break we got off to a fabulous musical start thanks to Eoghan Collins and the DIY balaclava. It was then over to Gwenno Dafydd who is 52% Welsh and 48% Malteaser. Next was David Owootomo who is remarkably defying the ageing process thanks to toad liver. The wonderfully funny Dean Helliwell was next with the horrific imagining of Jurassic park if the DNA had been supplied by the Kardashians. After dean was the glamtastic Rose Rage. Often feeling like she’s been trapped in an English teacher’s body, Rose spends way too many conversations explaining pronouns. Brandon Charleston then showed us just why Bob the Builder is an unreasonable example of the building trade to be exposing kids to before Jacqui Doherty (pictured) told the young ones that marriage is a bit like agreeing to only ever having one flavour of crisps again. Our penultimate act was the brilliant Sally Firth (aka Siân Spry), who has been traumatised recently thanks to an experience with a life drawing class for beginners. If ever thinking about getting into character comedy, go see Sian perform. This is how to truly embrace the concept of character in comedy. Closing the show we had Emily McQuade and some spooky tales of haunted “robot hands” and her difficult relationship with diet coke.
So that was our Growing Old Disgracefully Show. And it was a load of fun. Our next one is Sunday afternoon, July 21st at The Star of Kings.