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Stick Your Job Up Your Arse, Komedia, Brighton, May 10
1:44pm Monday 12th May 2008
Likeable Scouse comedian John Bishop is a natural storyteller and you could imagine him being an entertaining dinner guest.
His routine - which debuted at Edinburgh last year - is an enjoyable tale charting his journey from disenchanted nine-to-fiver for a pharmaceutical company to stand-up comedian.
Bishop's easygoing, laconic delivery is redolent of the kind of patter you get on a Saturday afternoon trip to the bookmaker's.
His globe-trotting tale of midlife crisis and reconnecting with family makes for a diverting 90 minutes of comedy.
Unfortunately it's all a bit conventional and nothing Stan Boardman wasn't doing 20 years ago. And the idea of a comedian doing a stand-up routine about becoming a comedian seems rather like a newspaper columnist writing about being a newspaper columnist - it's all a bit navel-gazing.
You'll leave Bishop's show feeling uplifted but it's hardly side-splitting stuff.
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- Brain Drain, Cella @ Sanctuary Cafe, Hove, May 24
- Ising On The Cake, Friend’s Meeting House, Brighton, until May 23
- The Marilyn Monroe Show, The Parlure Spiegeltent, Brighton, until May 25
- Rob Deering, Udder Place, Brighton, May 17
- An Evening Of Playback Theatre, The Brunswick, Hove, May 18
- Me And Jezebel, Brighton Little Theatre, Brighton, until May 24
- Follow Me, Komedia, Brighton, until May 21
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!, Brighton Unitarian Church, until May 21
- Coco Peru, Komedia, Brighton, until May 21
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