{"id":834,"date":"2006-10-30T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T12:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/comedy-of-stage-and-screen\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T12:04:28","slug":"comedy-of-stage-and-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/comedy-of-stage-and-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy of stage and screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a wine-fuelled work quiz night on Friday which was good fun (my team lost on the tie-break and didn’t dispute too<\/em> many answers…), I was up just after 5am on Saturday morning to get to the airport. I flew to City Airport for the first time, which is not only more convenient for central London than “London” Luton or “London Stansted”, but, because it was a smaller flight and a less busy airport, my checked baggage emerged very quickly (and in the right city too).<\/p>\n

From there, a cheapish DLR journey took me to Greenwich, from where I took a stroll (more uphill than I’d remembered – grr) to Blackheath (and the obligatory second-hand bookshop browsing) and Lewisham. In the afternoon, I delivered some leaflets before heading back to Blackheath to see funny comedian Jeff Green<\/a>. One joke I particularly remember was the bar happily selling us large drinks before the show without mentioning that we couldn’t take them in. All was not lost, though – the bar staff popped them in the fridge for us during the first half. Green himself was very funny, compensating for a quiet audience, low lights and a groin injury with spot on jokes about Blackheath, a good gag about Anne Frank merchandise and several naughty words.<\/p>\n