Channel 4's Comedy Gala, The 02, London Independent
There was a curious mix of something old, something new, something borrowed (such as BBC stars Catherine Tate, Rob Brydon, James Corden and Ruth Jones) and plenty of blue for this mammoth charity gig housed by a venue that was once itself a standing joke when it was the Millennium Dome.
Billed as "the biggest live stand-up show in UK comedy history", the gala was produced by Open Mike, the broadcast arm of the Off the Kerb management agency, and was therefore dominated by Kerb acts. This gave the show a Janus-faced nature best embodied by the contributions of kindred spirits Michael McIntyre, the current observational darling, and Lee Evans, a retro hero with a long established die-hard following.
McIntyre closed the first half with a sumptuous tapestry woven from the sloth-inducing ads for Snuggies and the gaudy ones for Cash My Gold that populate morning television, while Evans, who closed the show looking evermore a cross between Norman Wisdom and Mad comic's Alfred E Neuman, proved that some oldies are goldies. In one routine, Evans asks a "village idiot" for directions and has to endure the man acting out where the car journey would take him; on his second imaginary circuit of a roundabout the man admits: "sorry, I missed my exit."
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