Suffolk Punch Comedy Club, a stand-up event on 20th July 2023 @ ITFC
The official blog by freelance creative, Jay Cool
So excited. Nothing kick-starts the old motor quite like punch after punch after punch of high-speed witticisms by Suffolk´s finest and funniest.
Take Louie Green, the top-rated compere with a talent for identifying and uprooting the most reluctant of participants.
Don´t let him pick on me, dont let him … Too late – he´s onto me! thinks Ashley.
Can you spot Ashley?
Photos by Jay Cool; image of audience members by Prawny from Pixabay.com
But, be your name Ashley, Ashley or even Ashley, if you´ve purchased a ticket for this show, there´s no escape and nowhere to hide. And, before one Ashley can object, the other Ashleys are left seething, as Louie (comedian-turned-talent scout) spares no blushes in signing up Priority Ashley as Ipswich Town´s goalie.
Awkward. But prior to any possible own-goal situation, a real man, a John rather than an Ashley comes to save the match. And John Mann does indeed turn out to be hilarious, even with his repertoire of funny being all tied up within a net of bedroom ropes, Scrotox (don´t ask!) and test kits for … (again, don´t ask!). For a share in all the hype, be it in a real Mann´s bedoire or otherwise, you´ll have to look up, book in and hook up with him yourself. Be quick, though – ´cos he´s a busy Johnny!
And this is all too evident when the Big-Mann Johnny scoots off to his next fixture …
Read more: Winkleman v. Wall @ Ipswich Town FC… and is replaced by the illustrious (not lusty!) Mark Roy.
Young Mark turns out to be more a connoisseur of sweets than of flavours of the bedroom. It´s all a light and tasty relief from the previous stand-up´s excesses.
At least it is … until a job lot of seemingly innocuous Flumps insert themselves into Mark´s set, all hunched and bunched up together and all in demand of a decent separation and straightening out session. Say no more …
No matter, stand-up Alexa´s here to help! Ask her anything and she´ll respond inpromptu, just like the real thing. Well, almost. This rugby-playing Alexa specialises in the physical-reflex response, as opposed to the verbal variety preferred by her namesake. This comes down hard on the audience, as we are winded over and over again, finding ourselves involuntarily doubled up with laughter at her twist and turn punchlines.
A headline act is expected, but what actually turns up next is a hairline act.
The appropriately named Tom Wall places his fine head of bowl-cut hair (very likely a wig – possibly a mop-head) to the forefront of a purple-bricked wall and proceeds to entertain us with a hair-raisingly goofy set, something akin to Claudia Winkleman´s shampoo commercials, i.e. both nauseatingly excruciating in the cringe (and the fringe) stakes, but with Wall being Head and Shoulders above Winkleman in promotional value.
A fitting finale to yet another fantastic evening of fool-headed freakiness, courtesy of Suffolk Punch Comedy Club.
If you enjoyed this blog (and even if you didn´t) please secure yourself a ticket for the next big comedy event, at The Brewery Tap in Sudbury, Suffolk. Look forward to seeing you there (along with your donation of a massive bagful of non-perishable edibles – one bag per ticket holder)!
By Jay Cool, author/ artist/ creative, July 2023
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