Robin Ince's School For Gifted Children
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Josie Long + Martin White + Robin Ince + Simon Singh + Jo Neary + Ben Goldacre
Thursday, 6 November
Museum of London, London Wall, City, EC2Y 5HN
Comedy: , Sketches, Stand Up, As Seen on TV, Poetry
How Much:
Free!
Comedians can be at their best when they try to teach us something - just think of Bill Hicks and his political diatribes. Robin Ince's School For Gifted Children show is less of a rant and more of a funny and at times, musical lecture by various comedians on anything from things they have found out about dinosaurs to nebulae and wig powder.
Its style is haphazard and off the cuff with unplanned diversions and twists and turns. Ince himself informs us: 'It's for people who like watching documentaries about ants with odd behaviour, books about rebellious librarians and who enjoy the idea of enthusiasm.'
This consistently good show has sold out all over London but the Museum of London is now kindly holding it for free. You can also stay late and wander round the London Before London, Roman London and Medieval galleries. The learning never has to stop people!
Its style is haphazard and off the cuff with unplanned diversions and twists and turns. Ince himself informs us: 'It's for people who like watching documentaries about ants with odd behaviour, books about rebellious librarians and who enjoy the idea of enthusiasm.'
This consistently good show has sold out all over London but the Museum of London is now kindly holding it for free. You can also stay late and wander round the London Before London, Roman London and Medieval galleries. The learning never has to stop people!
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