Gig 26: SAS Comedy @ Lass O’ Gowrie, Manchester – 14th January 2012

S.A.S. Comedy is my favourite night of the month (as an act and as an audience member), so it was nice to be back after missing the last two.  What wasn’t so nice were the nerves that I had prior to unleashing new character Simeon Gold (The One Man Theatre Company) on the world.

The basis of the material was some of the short plays that I originally performed at Magical Animals (Gig 6 & Gig 11) and which have cropped up in a few straight stand up sets.  They’ve usually gone down OK, but in the past I’ve just read them out, so it was a bit of a leap to base an entire act on them in which I’d be acting them out as an idiot.  The character of Simeon Gold was quite OTT, and so the performance was crucial.  My worry was that if the audience didn’t go for the first few minutes thenI might lose confidence in the persona. Being a character act, it’s not like I could just switch to a different type of joke, like you might be able to (if you’re competent enough) with straight stand up.

Luckily, the audience did go for it and I was able to relax into it once the first laugh was out of the way.  The beauty of the “plays” is that they’re supposed to be a bit rubbish, so it does give some scope for messing about with them and improvising around the ideas.   To be honest, it couldn’t have gone much better.  Which, you know, was quite nice.

If you like daft comedy, then S.A.S. is definitely the night for you, and is a bargain at just £3.  Get involved, you won’t regret it.

P.s.

In fairness, you might regret it if you don’t like daft comedy, but it’s only £3, so give it a try anyway.