Sunday afternoon at The Star of Kings this week was a nice busy room. First to make them laugh was the fabulous Caroline Madds. Caroline has a twin, which allows her to appreciate the joys of imagining spork homicide. It was then over to the hilarious Declan Evans who recently lost his dog due to not looking hard enough. We then had the brilliantly bizarre James Sutton. James isn’t a vegetarian…at least not so long as he keeps eating the flats mice. Becky Jade was next with why she’s given life’s complicated choices over to an app. It’s just one she can’t use in public. The political fury of Matt Withers was next with why Keir Starmer is just like a pair of curtains. After Matt was Steven Mayne who had us quite surprised that Epstein’s plane had disabled access. Next was Tony Carr and why we should all be happy comedians don’t play the recorder before Ellie Ward convinced us we should all do more to support our local lifeguards… The literal shit they have to put up with gets worse! G&B’s Poet Laureatte, Jack Scullion, was next with some paddling pool audience participation and beer mat prose. It was then over to Pete Kinsella, one of life’s herring gulls: he’s too big to shoo away, but you’re all convinced he nick your chips. Closing the first half was Seraj Alijan (pictured). Seraj, who’s a single use Baghdadi, had us all questioning whether the Tellytubbies might actually be a sleeper cell waiting it out in their bunker.
After the break we got off to a great start thanks to the fabulously funny Phil Green and the tale of the best wedding that wasn’t. It was then over to Stephen Portlock who recently did a very confusing video audition. After Stephen we had Matt Abell-King and everything from galloping piles to fat dogs and Stephen Hawking before Dalya Black told us about how problematic it is to be driving the equivalent of a well lit Christmas tree. It was then over to Alex Gogarty, a suffragette legend and all round hero in the battle against the patriarchy since the age of 10. After Alex was James Hurren, who wonders if wine connoisseurs and therapists use the same book of euphemisms and metaphors. It was then over to Yovan Chamroo who’s got his completion certificate for Hinge, Tindr and Gumtree. The afternoons penultimate act was Arthur Mitchell, the man so determined to take his dog with him when he moved, he bought a shovel. Closing the show was the hilarious Paul Little. Paul is trying to make pedalos cool again and who definitely knows his way round “the fun table” at weddings.
Well that was a fun Sunday. Headlining next Sunday we’ve the one and only, towering talent of Pete Kinsella. See you then.