Prince Abdi

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This film starts off as a tribute to the club, but ends as a very fitting tribute to Peter Grahame.

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Uneven start to 2021's online gathering.

Review: Brexit Free Comedy at the Comedy Bunker

I say I say I-SA, what do you get when you hold a comedy night on so called 'Brexit day'? The answer is a wonderfully bonkers, politics free, mash up of a show the covers everything from Prince and Cher, relationships and ISA's, Usain Bolt and the Grand Canyon.

Host Jason Manford keeps out of the firing line as the nine remaining comics perform for the 1st Battalion Scots Guards at Catterick in North Yorkshire. But first they have to go through army training so they can write five minutes of new material.

"I shouldn't be doing this. I've got a verruca," complains Rudy, 47. It's the best one-liner of the night, although that's not actually part of his set.

It's weird, the way this formula is intent on squeezing comedy into an observational straight-jacket. And with critic Kate Copstick on the panel, I'd love to know what she really thinks of the end product, where viewers only judge most of the stand-ups on the basis of just one or two gags.

The big questions are: will Prince Abdi attempt another woeful accent and will Cole make a prat of himself again? Happily, the answer's "Yes" to both.

Week two results: Prince Abdi voted off

Prince Abdi became the second contestant to leave Show Me The Funny on tonight's show.

Often, TV comedy is a slow-moving carousel of the same old, established names. So welcome this pilot, which gives young comics a shop window for their stand-up and sketches. Do you know any of these names? Naz Osmanoglu, Joe Lycett, Imran Yusuf, Lou Sanders, Jason Patterson, Joanne Lau, Ben Sarpong, Eric Lampaert, Victor Daniels, Amy Hoggart, Price Abdi, Annette Fagon, Sarah Campbell? Me neither. Most of them are unknown for a reason, but shows like this only have to find one likely future star: my money's on Miss London.