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| James Sherwood - At the Piano | |
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Fri 19th March at 8:00pm |
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Sony Award Nominee and Sherwood is the creator and chief writer of Radio 4’s new topical panel show I Guess That’s Why They Call It The News and has also been heard on 4 Stands Up, Five Live's Richard Bacon Show and reviewing the papers on Sky News. “Gloriously pedantic and quite brilliant” The Scotsman “Elegant, intelligent stand-up” The Guardian
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| Tickets: £10, Concs£8 | Comedy |
While the oft-mocked genre of musical comedy has received something of a critical fillip off the back of Flight Of The Conchords and The Lonely Island, there's still some way to go before the one-man-and-his-piano approach to comic songs is fully rehabilitated. Although some people may hark back to the undoubted genius of 1950s US ironist Tom Lehrer, for many of us the more recent, terrifying, oeuvre of bearded 70s pun-fetishist Richard Stilgoe casts a much longer shadow. James Sherwood has a piano (and a beard), but there the comparisons end, thanks to his non-stop invention and brilliant comic craft. A BBC Radio 4 regular, Sherwood is able to mix dry, gently cerebral comedy with moments of inspired silliness – like when he delves into the discarded first-draft lyrics of Paul McCartney, or explains in great detail why traditional between-song banter would be inappropriate for Radiohead's Thom Yorke.
The Rondo Theatre is supported by Bath and North East Somerset Council.
