Mick Green
Friday 17th October 2008 11:23pm
314 posts
Quote: James Turner @ October 17 2008, 7:15 PM BST
Don't be too harsh on the guy, everyone's allowed a bad gig or two.
This wasn't just a bad gig James. It's the contempt he held for his audience which really riled me. I've seen some (lesser known) comics have a bad gig but at least they looked as though they were genuinely putting the effort in. Coogan, as the reviews suggest, was under-prepared, under-rehearsed and completely lazy in rehashing a lot of material from 10-12 years ago. I hope he is humble enough to learn from his mistakes but, as suggested earlier, the magnitude of this particular shitstorm suggests the damage may already have been done.