Well bust in this case. Dragged along to the Comedy Bunker because 'We saw Paul Chowdhury support Omid Djalili and he was so-oo-o funny and now he's the main act and it'll be great!' , it became apparent that 10 minutes' support act doth not a great 45 minute set make.The 10 minutes were quite amusing, but with the rest of the set devoted to getting a 17 year old boy from the audience to eat what turned out to be pulverised chewing tobacco was - well, can you imagine a boring car crash?
He calls himself Britain's finest Asian stand-up. Is this allowed? Sure being Asian allows him to be funny about race in a way not open to palefaces, but the 'Asian' adjective makes him either desperate or crap. Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar are safe on their pinnacles - of course it's been one shared pinnacle for a while now. Wish them joy.
On the other hand, the support for this debacle was Shappi Khorsandi, who did a good job. Hmm - I bet she would be a great main act - I wonder when she'll be back . . . ?
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Speaking of race and stand-up, did you see/hear about what's-his-face from Seinfeld - a programme I have never seen - having a spontaneous racist outburst during a stand-up performance? Career-ending stuff. And quite extraordinary use of the n-word.
For those of you who have no idea what BiB is talking about, which was me until I unleashed my limitless grasp of bleeding-edge technology and searched youtube by 'seinfeld' and 'nigger' and got http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8z3x-xiYR8
Loved the way they bleep out fuck but not nigger.
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