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Ian Stone
with Hattie Hayridge, Tiffany Stevenson, Laquisha Jonz at Comedy Camp
- Barcode, Soho, London
- 6 March 2007
Featuring a very unorthodox Jew, a Jerry Springer starlet and a poor man’s Catherine Tate, this week's camp was cooling off
With acknowledgement from The Independent as one of the UK’s
best comedians, Ian Stone was in a bullish mood. The Holocaust, Darfur,
The Pope (not the current "Nazi Pope", the one before) and sex
with children were his favoured themes. The Comedy Camp clientele
guffawed at Stone’s ‘owning a gay’ skit, but shrieked in horror when he
dismissed the Rwandan genocide with; "So what?" At one point a
member of the crowd was heard calling Stone "typical" when he
told the crowd he was Jewish. Stone responded with a series of quips about
bludgeoning babies and kicking tramps. Painful to point of laughter, Stone's
crass taunts secured his success.
Hattie Hayridge, on the other hand, was dead on her feet. Poorly executed
anecdotes about bendy buses and make-up, paired with huge uncomfortable
silences between lines, left the crowd wincing. Admittedly, she did appear
off-colour and complained of flu, but sympathy was lacking.
Tiffany Stevenson’s boyish delivery and observations of council-estate
life were funny, but a little stale. At times she tip-toed into Catherine
Tate territory with punchlines that sounded dangerously familiar to "Am
I bovvered?" Her set felt a little too cut and paste, reducing her
to but a shadow of more popular, and more original comics.
Laquisha Jonz’s bombastic and over-egged performance hit it off with the
camp comedy clientele. But dousing every member of the front row with air
freshener and referring to Jerry Springer every 30 seconds left you feeling
sick. The deluge of ‘wacky’ cultural references also grated.
Matt Hussey
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