The winner of the Edinburgh Award in 2007, Basden creates short and funny songs revolving around the cast of Neighbor and the stories of stalking Paula Radcliffe. There are times when he uses his projector to display cartoon or quotes some of the lines from his incomplete novel, Hot Moon, which is one of his underrated novels.

The famous guy of the Shooting Stars, Angelos Epithemiou, is the Dutch Elm’s Conservatoire’s Renton Skinner. He delivers Skinner jokes without uttering a word. Moreover, it is a pleasure for the audience to watch a dance which involves regular costume change.

Another winner of the Perrier Awards, Sean Hughes, gives away serious humor and ever since he quit smoking, he discovered that he had been gifted with “a fat face”. A short duration will not suffice Hughes’s comedy but middle age restricts a man to indulge too much.

Mark Watson has been recognized as one of the best reviewed comics of the 21^st Century. Having the right amount of madness and intelligence, he’s always ready with new material that his comedic brain comes up with. His acts mostly cover the change of responsibility, political issues (even taking on the controversial red diesel suppliers and warmongers), the joy of chasing people and lot more. A lot will be done at this show, leaving you in awe and happiness.

Live at the Chapel is a great show for all adults to watch and enjoy. So make a date and go see.

I enjoyed his recent preview but I did find it a wee bit complacent. The subject matter (which seemed to revolve mainly around his Dad and how bad the lighting was in the venue) felt a bit tired. Also the lighting wasn’t bad; we were only a few metres away and could see him fine so it just came across as slightly Diva-esque behaviour (not as Diva-esque as if he went in for laser hair removal west london, but you know what I mean…) That was a shame and made me feel a bit sad. As a fan you always hope that people won’t become conceited when they taste a bit of TV fame, so hopefully he was just having a bad day. The set was still great and quick and had loads of potential but I did feel as an audience member a bit snubbed. Would he have tried harder and moaned less if he’d been in a bigger venue with a bigger crowd? Probably. But as a punter I don’t want to think that. Punters want every show to be special right? Even previews.

I’m going up to Edinburgh this year though so I’m sure he’ll blow me away again there and talk less about the limitations of the venue and more about his material!

When you first see the puppets come out of Jeff Dunham’s case you may think “seriously”? I mean I am not five and didn’t pay to see a puppet show. These are not the puppets from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood dressed up in baby girls clothing. Oh no, these puppets say what everyone is thinking but afraid to say. There is one that is a grumpy older man and makes constant jokes about young people, the economy, the government, and yes of course marriage.

There is another puppet that is a pepper. A jalapeno pepper that talks in and of itself is funny. This pepper actually tells jokes and picks on the other puppets and Jeff. Jeff can somehow manage doing two different puppets and the same time and his own voice as well. You may get dizzy trying to figure out how he keeps it all organized.

Jeff Dunham is not rude or crude. He does not go out of his way to be offensive just to get jokes. He does have some funny material that may be a little much for younger children. He does not focus on sex, cursing, or sexist jokes. He does not discriminate or pick on one race too much. He just has good humor. He makes you laugh by making you think about all of the strange truths in this life. He is a wonderful comedian to see again and again because his performance is always changing, interesting, and always humorous.

1) I had awoken with no particular strange thoughts on my mind. Breakfast was alright, you might even say uplifting, and I had no bad dreams to ponder.

2) I boarded the train – changing once at the ever so delightful ’Norwich’ – and arrived in London to great busy and hustle-and-bustleness. Something felt wrong and yet it felt also so right. This was when I started to feel very strange and couldn’t for the life of me work out why so–

3) The day went on as days generally do when you have a meeting about something you care very little about, but is apparently good for business (in this case one concerning Hair Restoration ); by that I mean that I went to the meeting and then I left the meeting, and I wished I hadn’t been to the meeting, of course (also because I was starting to think that I was loosing my hair, due to talking about loosing hair so much…). Then I found myself feeling strange again–but not knowing why–

It was as the announcement came (I was at the underground by then) that I realized why I had felt strange: I hadn’t been delayed once during the day, and that was what I was missing! That was what felt strange! And I knew what delays were, I can tell you. Every single time I’d come to London before that day (though I should say I hadn’t visited the capital since they sorted the trains out and made them run on time) I’d been made furious with rage by the trains ruining my day and making it run three or four hours late.

Female comedians have had a pretty hard time of it in the last few years, and it’s easy to see why. In this male-dominated industry we are, for one thing, just not used to seeing females do stand-up. But is there something deeper? Well, that really depends on who you ask. Some say that women just can’t do comedy, while others say that it’s not surprising they often flop. With all that pressure on their shoulders, is it any wonder that so many throw in the towel?

That said, there have been many hit comedians who have done well. Brit Sarah Millican is one good example. The northern lass hadn’t even considered stand-up until she was dumped by her boyfriend. And it was a good thing she found it, apparently, because the public love that girl. She’s now an established act on the circuit, performing gigs across the country to much success.

Composing and delivering jokes as confidently as the big hitters of comedy, he lacks only the self congratulatory flamboyance that characterises the Michael McIntyre’s of this world. His insight is what sets him apart from his peers, observing the fascination and wonder in so much of the world that we all take for granted.

Never afraid to sound nerdy or verbose he is one of the most informative comedians around and with diverse routines, you’re guaranteed to learn something without being patronised, (which presumably accounts for his popularity with younger audiences as well.) His enthusiasm for self improvement is genuinely infectious leading to the increasingly rare sensation of feeling like you’re a better person after seeing him perform. ‘’Improved self worth? Why Mr. Ince, you’re really spoiling us!’’

His brainchild ‘Nine lessons and carols for godless people’ has probably done more good- stimulating inquisitive minds than most charitable acts and has successfully created a communal sense of camaraderie among rational minds in the two short years since its inception. Over the years his book club has inspired countless people and facilitated the rehabilitation of many stagnant minds, not to mention the educating festival patrons of all ages.

Whether or not you ever see him perform, you owe Robin Ince a debt of thanks, because we’ll be feeling the shockwaves from his impact on the cultural landscape for decades to come.

As a complete sidebar I have just applide for a couple of Secondary education job openings. I know it is a little strange but I have to say that I am totally excited about the opportunity!

A successful comedian will find a genre that appeals to many and either tell jokes or humourous stories, be they made up or anecdotory. Like many other things jokes change with the times, they come in and go out of fashion. Apart from childrens’ jokes that is. I am reminded of when my children were young and returned from school with a new "joke". Invariably they were surprised that I knew the punch line. You see they weren’t new – I had heard and told these jokes forty or so years before. Occasionally there would be a new one but they tend to be related to the time. I recall my son coming home ten or fifteen years ago with "How do you get Picachu on a bus? – You pokeimon."

The material that a comedian uses has to be relevant if he is to be successful and more than that it has to be relevant to a large number of people. The Ricky Gervaises and Bill Baileys of this world write their material around everyday happenings but with an "absurd" slant. the thing is that the audience can associate with both the events and the slant. they understand that this seemingly serious happening or situation could go off onto an absurd tangent. The skill of Gervais, Bailey and their ilk is to see that tangent, expand it and deliver it.

Here lies their next requirement – delivery. We can all remeber jokes, we can all make the mundain absurd but only a very few can stand up in front of an audience and tell those stories, crack those jokes in such a way as to get us, the public, on their side – to laugh with them. Once the "stand ups" can achieve that we will pay for it.

What a great skill to have – making people laugh. Wish I could do it………I’ll have a go:-

"Have you heard the one about…." Well perhaps not.

And another update, I have finally finished the changes for the tattoo removal manchester webpage. I am rather confused how I feel about this one, any criticisms are welcome

But the weird thing about it is that the PoGo does not use any ink! I am not entirely sure how it actually works, but the paper (a special type called, ‘Zink’) must somehow be impregnated with each colour necessary to give you a print. The quality of the pictures as surprisingly good, I expected them to look a bit naff but they are actually very respectable.

Obviously, this device will only work with Zink printing paper and your pictures are only 3” x 2” in size… However, if you want to be able to just print off photographs straight from your mobile phone without all the clatting about of hooking it up to a computer, then this is your baby.

It is all very clever and it should appeal to a large amount of people. Teenagers whose lives revolve around their mobiles will love it and older people will find it a quick and simple way to get their family photographs printed. The PoGo is incredibly easy to use and it is compatible with an enormous amount of different handsets. But, before you rush out to buy one, check that your phone will support it. There is a long list of which mobile phones work with the PoGo on Polaroid’s website.

And just before I go; how does italy ski holidays online contest sound ?? Everybody must enter, I am determined to win this!

Some people fill their blogs up with information about their business opportunity. This is fine as long as you are giving sincere information and not talking hype. What I like to do instead is turn my blog into a sort of training site. I teach people how to build their business through different marketing methods. This gains their trust and they eventually end up joining me in business. After having your blog up for awhile and making regular posts, the search engines will pick it up and index it which will bring in tons of traffic and more business.

In other news, just had this forwarded from Mandy Skin clinic have been prosecuted for not having licenced their clinic correctly, bloody hell the staff their must be pissed, they are a huge company.

Why is it that we seem to be obsessed with making everything as small as possible? Stereo systems, mobile phones, netbooks and even cars have decreased in size over the years. It is nice when things are ‘compact’ but sometimes it goes a bit too far.

I recently got a new mobile phone. It had far more gadgets on it than my last one and it was a lot more up to date as well. The only problem was that I struggled to actually use it! The keys were a lot smaller and closer together so that when I tried to send a text message it turned it into a garbled mess. I was a bit miffed but when I had a look round for something better I noticed that many of the later models had the same design for their keys.

Memory cards for devices are the most amazing things. The full sized SD is not exactly on the large side but when you see a Micro SD it is mind-blowing to think it can hold so much data. But am I the only person to find it really fiddly to use them? It often seems to be a real challenge to remove one from a mobile phone. Maybe I am just getting too old for all this ‘new fangled technology’…

Perhaps we should have a squad of ‘Size Police’ who go around to various manufacturers of electrical gadgetry and check that idiots like me are going to be able to use their products. Anyone found to be breaking the strict size regulations could be miniaturised and doomed to an existence of picking out misshaped blobs of solder from circuit boards on their own gadgets!

Hmmm. Maybe not; it might be more reasonable to expect people like me with big, fat sausage fingers to take a bit more care.

More work related news, I have finally finished all the copy for the tattoo removal London webpage. I really don’t know how I feel about this one, any comments would be helpful