11. comedy at aber

Since moving to Aber, I've been to a lot of comedy events. Every two weeks the student union holds a comedy event called ComedyWorks which is great - especially as it's only £4 a ticket!! With ComedyWorks I've seen a variety of different comedians, many of whom have been on Russell Howard's Good News, which makes me feel pretty privileged to have seen them live!! :D

I think I mentioned the first comedy works gig I went to where Nathan Caton and Matt Rees performed with the MC being Andrew Ryan. Since then me and Rob have been to three more where we've seen Marcel Lucont, Paddy Lennox, (MC Clint Edwards), Andrew O'Neill, Fin Taylor, (MC Suzi Ruffell)
Eric Lampaert, Jessica Fostekew, (MC Jim Smallman), Elis James, Matt Rihcardson, (MC Tom Webb) and at the last comedy gig of this semester we'll get tos ee Ryan McDonnell, ,(MC Chris Turner).  At the Eric Lampaert gig, we sat right next to the stage and Rob got spoken to twice!! The first time was because he knew the capital of Azerbaijan (very embarrassing!!) and I can't remember why the second time! It was all good fun though!

As well as being to comedy gigs at the union, me and Rob have also gone to the Aberystwyth Arts Centre (also located on the campus - very fortunate) to see Mark Watson, Josh Widdicombe and Seann Walsh - all who were brilliant! And now Rob's bought tickets for us to go and see Chris Addison and Lloyd Langford :D

Mark Watson's gig was back in October, and his mum had bought us tickets as result presents. Although I'd heard some of his material before (having watched a few youtube clips - mainly to check I actually found him funny), a lot of it was related to audience participation. He put a mobile number up, and his twitter username so that people could text/tweet him throughout the show, and he used a lot of that as material. He even mentioned a conversation I'd had on twitter with Natalie about sleep, that he'd seen prior to the show, after me having mentioned him in a tweet! It was embarrassing, but all good laughs!

Seann Walsh and Josh Widdicombe did a joint gig, but that didn't matter as they both did their usual material, as well as doing some joint towards the end! Me and Rob had front row seats (thankfully not in the centre!) and they were brilliant! Seann Walsh's impressions of people really make up part of his material, and I have to say, I love his Michael McIntyre impression! They're both just amazing comedians, and they both relate well to the audience - especially as a lot of the audience are younger people and they're younger comedians.

Anyway, I think everyone should go see a live comedy gig at some point in their lives, because it's so much better than just seeing a recorded one on the TV. I think that if it's not being recorded then the comedians tend to be a bit more outgoing, and they can appeal to that particular audience! It's weird to think that I was never really bothered by watching comedy on the telly, or even going to see it, but now, I think it's great!

Tara