Q. Where can you see three comics for three quid? A. The Iguana Bar in Chorlton, Manchester.
The Mirth on Monday gig yesterday had Alun Cochrane, Ava Vidal and Chris Lynam packing them in. They appeared in that order but I preferred Ava Vidal’s set to Lynam’s. There aren’t many comediennes and few of them are any good but she was confident in her material and although most of her set was about being black it was imaginative and witty.
Cochrane was droll and laid back – where some of his material was met with stony stares, a less self-assured comedian would have panicked. Cochrane helped the audience through these patches letting us know he wasn’t fazed at all.
Chris Lynam is Lee Evans crossed with Keith Richards. His surreal, anarchic, puerile antics included nonsensical ranting, banjo playing in his underwear (the sheet music held up by a human music stand in the form of a ‘volunteer’ girl made to kneel in front of his crotch) and finally stripping off completely, lighting a Roman candle clenched between his buttocks and singing ‘There’s no business like show business’ as bright showers of sparks dangerously played over the speaker stacks in what is after all quite a tiny venue. With an act like that, no wonder he was on last.
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