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Comedy From Hell
Bill Murray pub, Angel Comedy, London
THE young men in the front row aren’t sure what’s going on.
Let me explain it to them: they’re at a brand new comedy night called Comedy From Hell, and an Estonian clown is trying to get them to do high-fives with a plastic leg.
Sunday night audiences, as Mark Silcox suggests, are sophisticated and discerning. As opposed to Saturday ones, who just want topical gags and to be asked where they’re from.
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