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Went to the comedy night in Academi for the first time last night. There were three performers: the warm-up lady, the headliner and the compere/MC guy.

The warm-up lady wasn't great. She had a few good jokes, but it was all very "I'm a girl and so all my jokes must be about being single and having sex". It was somewhat unfortunate, too, that she (against all the odds) managed to choose the same girl as the MC to ask "do you have a boyfriend? Is he romantic?"

The headliner started strongly with some witty limericks and a rather risque dialogue about disabled parking spaces. But it all felt pretty monotonous after a while; there's only so many times I want to hear "fuck" and "cunt" in one evening. And his accent was annoying.

But the MC was wonderful. He really was. He managed to choose the most excellent audience members to pick on: a (non-student) guy who had four children with four different women, a guy studying environmental forensics, and the gaggle of women at the back who kept screaming every time he said anything.

Pancakes for lunch, I think.