Si Hawkins features - page 42
Ring Of Fire 2: Stand and Deliver
Monday 15th May 2017
Our writer, failed stand-up Si Hawkins, was feeling the pre-wedding pressure about his speech. Did some expert advice from three comedy gurus pay off?
First Gig, Worst Gig: Daphna Baram
Thursday 11th May 2017
Israel born and now East London-based, Daphna Baram has come a long, long way from her seriously painful first gig.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Carl Hutchinson
Thursday 4th May 2017
Fresh from Chris Ramsey's tour, Carl Hutchinson recalls meandering babies, miserable cricketers and a weirdly changeable reviewer.
Spencer Jones interview
Friday 28th April 2017
Russ Abbot, Derek & Clive and a rare Vic & Bob pilot all inspired Spencer Jones' remarkable creation, The Herbert. With a Soho Theatre run and BBC pilot coming up, we talk Des Lynam routines, embracing mistakes, and Upstart Crow gossip.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Matthew Highton
Thursday 27th April 2017
Professional Weirdo and LOCO film reconstructor Matthew Highton talks trouser shouting, ice cream rebuttals and Ed Sheeran close encounters.
Ring of Fire: Do weddings and stand-ups mix?
Monday 24th April 2017
With his own nuptials on the horizon, Si Hawkins looks at the often painful clashes between weddings, stags, hens, and stand-up comedians.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Pierre Novellie
Tuesday 18th April 2017
The Isle of Man-raised South African recalls white wine fortitude, the Large Hadron Collider and an abusive Brexiteer.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Mark Olver
Thursday 13th April 2017
TV's Mr Warm-Up has a novel new night in Cardiff, although possibly not as novel as the night he gigged in a car.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Tom Allen
Thursday 6th April 2017
The currently on-tour Tom Allen tells all about in-car gigs, being outshone by soup, and a genuinely useful dressing room tip.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Adam Kay
Thursday 30th March 2017
Adam Kay has gone back to the NHS. Not to work, as he gave up doctoring over a decade ago, but for inspiration.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Toby Whithouse
Tuesday 28th March 2017
Doctor Who writer and Being Human creator Toby Whithouse recalls his sometimes scary-as-the-Cybermen days on the stand-up circuit.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Robert Florence
Thursday 23rd March 2017
Burnistoun's Robert Florence - back with new live project Uncles - recalls varied pint-glass action, sexual nausea, and one famously disagreeable Scottish magician.
Desiree Burch interview
Sunday 19th March 2017
LA, New York, London, leafy Hertfordshire: Desiree Burch's career history features some mighty/slightly random locations, experimental theatre, sex-pumped stand-up, and lots of penises.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Dave Spikey
Thursday 9th March 2017
It's 30 years since Dave 'Jerry St Clair' Spikey started stand-up, so in a special extended First Gig, Worst Gig he takes us right back to the NHS days.
BEASTS interview
Tuesday 7th March 2017
Who's the most fantastic BEAST? The sketch trio's new show will answer one of comedy's great questions.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Sarah Kendall
Thursday 2nd March 2017
The master storyteller Sarah Kendall on cokey agents, pizza-like pillows and a bizarrely unimpressed pensioner.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Tiff Stevenson
Thursday 23rd February 2017
The increasingly busy comic recalls helicopter heckles, drag buddies and a Bush dance.
First Gig, Worst Gig: Jim Campbell
Thursday 16th February 2017
Jim Campbell, from The Football Ramble, recalls bleak poetry, shoe-throwing and a Birmingham City shambles. This is our first - probably last - rhyming preamble.
Megan Ford interview
Monday 13th February 2017
London-based Floridian Megan Ford was so f*cked off two years ago, she wrote a fairly self-explanatory show called Feminasty. What on earth is she thinking now?
First Gig, Worst Gig: Danielle Ward
Thursday 9th February 2017
Multi-tasking Danielle Ward's gig memories include copious booing and a one-man standing ovation from Benedict Cumberbatch.