The Spoonfed Comedy Team pick out the best gigs in London this October.
21st-23rd October
The Boy With Tape on His Face @ Soho Theatre
Nominated for the Edinburgh 'Best Newcomer' award this year, Boy With Tape on His Face is a truly innovative, brilliant comedy act, one you rarely get to see on the comedy circuit these days. A combination of vaudeville theatre, mime and physical comedy, Australian comic Sam Wills has put his own stamp on the silent genre, using the audience and some carefully timed pop songs to aid his gags.
Best For: audience shame
23rd October
Russell Kane: Smokescreens and Castles @ Bloomsbury Theatre
Triple Edinburgh Award nominee Russell Kane brings the show that finally bagged him the award down to London. Exploring his working-class roots and the consequences of his Dad buying his own council house, this is Kane's best show to date, full of clever ideas and funny social commentary on life during the '80s.
Best For: homespun humour
25th-30th October
Josie Long: Be Honourable at the Soho Theatre
Exuberant optimist Josie Longs presents Be Honourable! - a show about strangers, politics, complacency and breakfast, aiming to provoke people into changing the world. This was another of our favourite shows from the Edinburgh Fringe. You can't fail to get swept along with Josie's passionate and charmingly skewed outlook on life as she discusses her obsession with pictures of breakfast on the internet, why she would like to be adopted by Billy Bragg and Nye Bevan and how we can improve the world around us. Terrific stuff.
Best For: feel-good comedy
26th October-6th November
Stewart Lee: Vegetable Stew at Leicester Square Theatre
Following a tremendous sell-out season at the LST last year, top class stand-up Stewart Lee embarks on a mini-tour of brand new work in preparation for his 2011 TV series. Giant moths, David Cameron, the Bullingdon Club and Adrian Chiles have been recent subjects for Lee's comedic gaze.
Best For: cerebral stand-up
Thursday 28th October
Robin Ince's Bad Book Club at artsdepot
Multi-award winning comedian Robin Ince returns with a new incarnation of the show that made him a cult hit on the London circuit. In Bad Book Club, Ince combines his twin passions of science and bad literature. Taking audiences through the writing spectrum, from Cliff Richard biographies, evolutionary biology and Dutch astrology books to Spiders from Mars and notes on how to pick up girls, he casts his comic wit on all sorts of ridiculous literature, at typical break-neck pace. Well, he's got a lot to get through.
Best For: hilarious crabs. Obviously not the pubic kind. They are troublesome.
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