Graeme and I had a rare treat last night, a night out at the theatre!
We were in Stockton on Saturday morning (a depressing activity at the best of times) when we saw an advert for Rich Hall (well known from QI, among other things here in the UK), a comedian who we both like. So Graeme phoned the box office at the theatre and managed to get tickets and even got his parents to babysit (but not during the call to the box office!)
I was a little nervous...had never been to see a comedian before...but fortunately we were sat far enough away to be anonymous and not to be engaged in any conversations with the performer! However, it was great. I didn't expect to laugh out loud, but I was very impressed at his ability to make a joke from anything that he picked up about members of the audience. In the second half he came out as the character Otis Lee Crenshaw, a country music singer, and managed to create songs that wove all of the information about the audience members he had spoken to in the first half into them! Particular favourites included a song about the "crap towns" he had visited on his tour (many of which were in Wales!) but it all made us laugh.
What a pleasant, funny evening, just a shame we had to return home and go to work this morning, as we felt it would have been nice to have gone out in Middlesbrough and returned home in the early hours of the morning. Oh well, we can do that when we go to Redworth Hall on Saturday for our neighbours' wedding :o)
We were in Stockton on Saturday morning (a depressing activity at the best of times) when we saw an advert for Rich Hall (well known from QI, among other things here in the UK), a comedian who we both like. So Graeme phoned the box office at the theatre and managed to get tickets and even got his parents to babysit (but not during the call to the box office!)
I was a little nervous...had never been to see a comedian before...but fortunately we were sat far enough away to be anonymous and not to be engaged in any conversations with the performer! However, it was great. I didn't expect to laugh out loud, but I was very impressed at his ability to make a joke from anything that he picked up about members of the audience. In the second half he came out as the character Otis Lee Crenshaw, a country music singer, and managed to create songs that wove all of the information about the audience members he had spoken to in the first half into them! Particular favourites included a song about the "crap towns" he had visited on his tour (many of which were in Wales!) but it all made us laugh.
What a pleasant, funny evening, just a shame we had to return home and go to work this morning, as we felt it would have been nice to have gone out in Middlesbrough and returned home in the early hours of the morning. Oh well, we can do that when we go to Redworth Hall on Saturday for our neighbours' wedding :o)
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