The Independent - London, August 23rd, 1998
Alan Davies
Assembly
Phil Kay
Gilded Balloon
Dave Gorman; Tommy Tiernan; Jenny Eclair; Richard Herring
Pleasance
"He's not like this on the telly", grinned Alan Davies, self- referentially. He'd just told a particularly anatomical joke, and was anticipating the horror of some of the more sheltered Jonathan Creek fans in the audience. This, then, is the paradox of live comedy in an age when stand-up comics roam freely across our TV screens. The punters venture out into the drizzly Edinburgh night only because they're so fond of a comedian's TV persona, but they don't feel they're getting ...
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