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All Star Stand Up Tour 2016
Derby Theatre
*** DERBY Theatre’s
diverse 2016 took another turn on Sunday night for a one night stop for
the biggest comedy tour of the year, the
All Star Stand Up Tour.
Featuring double Sony
Award winner and Mock The Week’s
Gary Delaney, top comedy trickster and star of BBC 1’s
The Magicians
Pete Firman, Kiwi compere Jarred Christmas and unbeaten legend and Sean
Hughes the Never Mind The Buzzcocks
team captain and one of Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in the World
- the move paid off with a sold out Sunday night. The two-hour show was split into two parts with
Delaney opening proceedings, Sean Hughes following and Pete Firman
closing a first half which was particularly strong. Delaney was at ease
as compere and ice-breaker, testing out which genre of gag was going to
work, pushing the smutometer up a few notches, and ensuring that
Nottingham was roundly abused. His fusillade of one liners invariably hit rather
than missed, and his Wikipedia gags were a safe comic vehicle for him to
close on. Sean Hughes, came on stage with a cracking local
gag, and never looked back. Assured, confident and funny, he delivered
what was to turn out to be the most competent, and humorous, set of the
night. Pete Firman presents himself as magician and
comic. His opening card tricks lacked impact in a five hundred seater
auditorium, yet his relaxed good humour kept the audience onside. We were rewarded with a compelling disappearing
£20 note trick from an audience member that reappeared in seemingly
impossible circumstances making for a rousing first half finale. For the second half Delaney took the stage to
build on his earlier material to create the perfect platform for
headliner for the night Jarred Christmas to bring it all home.
Unfortunately, after a tentative start, Christmas never seemed to quite
find his stride, despite a well worked audience participation slot.
Somehow he always seemed to be just behind the pace of the audience. Nonetheless the
ensemble enjoyed a warm reception from an appreciative crowd. The
All Star Stand Up Tour
continues on nationwide tour. Gary Longden 01-05-16
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