Sarah Millican

Venue - Inside Out - Darlington - Last Night - 22nd July 2012

This was one of the best comedy show's I have ever been to. It was only £7 and was a gig for 4 comedian/comediennes to try out some new material on a small crowd which helps them to edit in time for the big arena tours.

The biggest name there was definitely Sarah Millican who appeared twice in the show, and she was accompanied by Gary Delaney, Sally Ann Hayward, and Jonathan Mayor.

The show started with Jonathan Mayor (who was like a mash up between Gok Wan and Alan Carr - his words) coming out, exaggerating his gayness and purposefully making you think "what the hell is he doing up there". He pointed out a straight man in the crowd he fancied and insulting a large man to the hilt. He, we learned, would be presenting the whole thing. Not a great start, but I'm glad we stayed with him...

Next came the first part of Sarah Millican's show. She is so sincere, and makes jokes about her geniune life, which makes it funnier because you can relate to it, and 9 times out of 10, the embarrassment she is describing, you have actually experienced more than once in your life.

Then it was time for the interval. Half an hour of sitting in a steaming hot room wasnt great, but after the great first performance of Sarah Millican, I certainly wasn't about to go anywhere.

Straight after the interval, Jonathan Mayor came back out with a copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" and stated, in his very camp voice that it was "time for some literature". He then asked the audience what they thought of this book, and although I think it is terrible, I didn't have to guts to shout out. However... there were a few girls in there that had the guts to shout out that it was "like... amazing!!!" Commence, John Mayer ripping it to shreds! It was GENIUS! He started talking about how the 20yr old girl in there was asking "how" his "considerable length" would fit in her... and then started to imitate her giving him a blow job, which had everyone in creases. I think this was actually my favourite moment of the night.

After this genius "moment of the night" it was the turn of Gary Delaney. As I said earlier, this show was a bit of a practice run, so he actually turned up with a clip board, and ended up just reading out the jokes, but it suited him very well and added to his awkwardness, which he admitted to straight away. He started by taking the mick out of the fairy godmother in Cinderella, then started on the one liners, of which some of them toed the line but most of them were hilarious!

After he came on, Jonathan Mayor introduced Sally Ann Haywood. In my opinion, it was a bit flat, and seemed like she was "trying to get back on the horse" after losing her father last year. She started by giving us the story of when she had been to edinburgh and had a family emergency, and she managed to make us all laugh by telling us it looked like she was dissing the other comedian acts. Then it was as though she was reminiscing about her father instead of doing a bit of stand up. I'm sure she'll get there.

So the final part of Sarah Millican was upon us. Cracking stories about things from her dad to her cat to vibrators were thrown about, as well as house hunting and her boyfriend. As I said earlier lots of relatable, funny and real stories, which gave us all a laugh till 11.30pm.

We got home at midnight, well worth 7 quid. Recommend it to anyone who can get their hands on tickets.

Anyway, off to watch the soaps with a cup of tea (yes, i am a little addicted).

In a bit

xx