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Vagabond Comedy: online stand-up review
Hosted by Jordan Brookes and pals Darren J Coles and Charlie Webster, Vagabond s take on the online comic ensemble remains appealingly chaotic
★★★★ Review by Emma Sullivan | 13 Apr 2021
There’s a real sense of cabaret at work in the diversity of the performers at tonight s third edition of Vagabond Comedy: a strong showing from musical acts (Huge Davies, Frank Foucault, Siblings) and a nicely ad hoc, offbeat quality to proceedings. There s Sunil Patel, for example, deadpanning his list of ‘ideas’ (‘Best Monk in Britain’, ‘Best Monk in Britain 2’) or Frank Foucault’s similarly eccentric contribution: satirical songs animated by the elusive charm of his persona. Meanwhile Charlie Webster added a touch of vaudeville, drifting through his flat to a love song, lugubrious face wafting amongst the clothes in the wardrobe, in an irresistibly comic manner.
Travel hopes crushed: After being told for a YEAR vaccines were the key to freedom Australians now face being trapped in a gilded cage indefinitely after shock revelation that jabs won t open borders even when the slow rollout is complete
Even when Australia is fully vaccinated the borders may remain on lockdown
Australian government says other factors will determine reopening
Some experts believe quarantine system will remain in place until at least 2024
Business leaders and media commentators lashed the government s position
Australia was once the envy of the world by almost completely eradicating the virus after swiftly shutting the borders and introducing a series of Covid-safe restrictions.
Comics highlight women s history in Museum Of London videos
The Museum of London has recruited five comedians to make a series of videos about the role of women in the capital’s history.
Samantha Baines, Jenny Bede, Jen Ives, Thanyia Moore and Leila Navabi have each created a short piece inspired by a different item in the museum’s collections.
Moore is first with a monologue about female bus conductors, released today to coincide with International Women’s Day.
She was inspired by a photograph from the mid-1970s – the first time London Transport officially employed women as bus drivers.