ANOTHER night of chilled out frivolity at the university students’ home from home.
Up first was the proudly middle class Joe Lycett, armed with a notebook full of hilarious Amazon reviews (Complete Works of Shakespeare: Weak) as well as his own quite brilliant Synonym Poem (a surprising number of things rhyme with synonym...) He rounded off his pleasing set with an absolutely perfect, and very funny, impersonation of the dramatic voiceover guy from The X-Factor.
Headline act Rufus Hound followed the free pizza and no, sadly he didn’t do his Cheryl Cole.
He did have some very funny lines, however, delivered in his personable style to great effect.
It was a shame, however, that Hound decided to hijack his own act with what appeared to be blatant canvassing for the Liberal Democrat party towards the end of the evening, patronising the room (which he wrongly assumed to be full of first-time-voter students) about matters that do not belong in a comedy routine.
I’ve witnessed this kind of arrogant abuse of the mic before in stand-up, and it’s not fun to watch.
Stick to the jokes Rufus – a political oracle you are not.
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