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Dave Gorman boycotts venues due to booking fees

There are two places on this particular tour where venues did want the show but it hasn't worked out for another reason. Those venues are in Glasgow and in Oxford. In both cases I've said no to doing the show there because the venues concerned charge punters booking fees etc that I think are unreasonable.

The pedant's pedant, Dave Gorman, continues to convey his incredulity at the modern world. This week, he shouts about reviews for dishwasher tablets and surveys conducted to discover the amount of women that agree they have achieved voluptuous lips from using certain lipsticks. There are moments of amusement but also moments already touched upon by other comics, Adam Buxton's BUG show springing immediately to mind. Still, there are laughs to be had.

Dave Gorman's Episode 2 blog: follow-up

Basically, a lot of people want to know about my "lookalike".

Dave Gorman: A-list celebs, man flu, & modern nonsenses

In his new series, Modern Life is Goodish, Dave Gorman tries to make sense of the absurdities of our age. But where to begin?

Dave Gorman's Episode 2 blog

It couldn't have panned out the way it did if we'd had lawyers demanding scripts in advance. Weirdly, it's the fact that they accepted the idea of honing the stuff live - and without a paper trail of words for them to stay on top of - that meant tonight's show was able to contain the surprise it does.

Dave Gorman: A serious message about our media overkill

It's the information age - so why is there so much misinformation around? Dave Gorman searches for the truth.

Dave Gorman: Modern strife and how to deal with it

I've loved making Modern Life Is Goodish for Dave. Instead of shouting at the telly, I get to shout on the telly.

Dave Gorman: TV's sometimes arrogant about the Internet

It's called Modern Life is Goodish and I guess it's more about the -ish than the good.

Dave Gorman has turned the 'Powerpoint Presentation as Sketch Show' into something of an art form, getting comic mileage out of some pretty flimsy premises. Modern Life is Goodish is no exception, encouraging us to look a little closer and pay a little more attention: to terms and conditions, to pernicious marketing campaigns and, above all, to the internet.

Adam Buxton may do it darker and Alex Zane dumber, but they leave Gorman to plough the reasonably fertile middle ground of mocking idiots online, in this case as they debate Leap Years and non-news stories. Gorman's mounting incredulity becomes a little exhausting over the course of the hour and his climactic 'Found Poem' is overlong, but there are still plenty of laughs - and any time spent scrutinising Alan Sugar's doomed E-Mailer phone is never wasted. Goodish is about right.

Dave Gorman's favourite TV

The presenter, comedian and serial Googlewhacker on his TV predilections.