Camden Taaaaaaahn

So the week's "work" is done and dusted...two nights at Camden Jongleurs. No rest for the wicked eh?

We had two blistering nights of comedy of just about every kind this weekend. The bills were fabulous - Ian Moore, Andy Askins, Steve Day "Britain's Only Deaf Comic" as he likes to be introduced, Harvey Oliver (Friday), Zoe Lyons (Saturday) and Curtis Walker closing both shows.

The club was hot! Dunno whether the air con had broken down or just wasn't powerful enough to cope with 400 people packed into a room, but all of us - apart from Ian of course, he's far too cool - worked up a serious sweat.

Ian and Andy were both doubling up with The Comedy Store, so they did their stuff - excellently - and buggered off. Ian is always a joy, tho being North London some of the crowd were obviously analysing his material to see if it was PC enough to laugh at. Andy is just the most pleasant 20 minutes you can spend with anyone, and he has a brilliant Stephen Hawking gag at the moment which, it appears, only typists get!

Steve Day is still fairly new to Jongleurs, but he rocked the house both nights. He didn't go deaf till he was 18 and its actually difficult to tell that he is deaf, he lip reads so well. He's had to buy bright red hearing aids so that the audience believe him! How mad is that?

Harvey had an absolute stormer on Friday, I love the way his persona is developing, he gets so wound up onstage now it looks like several blood vessels are gonna burst all at once! Very funny.

On Saturday Zoe Lyons replaced Harvey, and it was a really lairy crowd for some reason (alcohol I suspect) and she took no prisoners. Its only the second time I've seen Zoe, the first being when I MC'd her doing her open spot at Bow Jongleurs about 6 months ago. Both times she's blown me away. Looking forward to working with her more often.

Curtis seems to have moved up an extra gear in his stand-up this weekend. I haven't seen him for a while, and he's never not been great, but this weekend he was on fire! He's so relaxed onstage, fearless even. He's also got some fantastic material at the moment.

If you're reading this and you were at either show you'll know I aint bullshitting when I say this weekend was just about the best two nights of comedy anywhere in the world.