Watch: Johann Hari’s “worst gig”


by Sunny Hundal    
December 15, 2010 at 5:33 pm

Just something for evening amusement with Indy columnist Johann Hari on the mic in his one and only (so far) stand-up comedy gig.

There’s serious potential here!

The bit about the Dalai Lama near the end is particularly funny. The theme of the night was “My worst gig”.


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1. Left Outside

That was quite good actually.

2. Mr Eugenides

That’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen Kim Il-Sung’s mummified corpse.

3. Shatterface

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4. Sunny Hundal

You’ve become so po-faced since you left blogging Mr E. Like lefties in fact :P

5. BenSix

That wasn’t his worst frig, that was John Maj…

Oh, gig.

6. Shatterface

Um, so comparing him unfavourably to the dessicated corpse of a mass murdering communist is okay but pointing out his physical resemblance to a living MEP is going to far?

7. Sunny Hundal

Oh god, why do I have to spell things out for you all the time shatterface. It gets really fucking tedious with people like you on this blog. Really fucking tedious. Mr E is making a point about the humour itself… he’s not actually saying JE looks like a mummified corpse. Whereas you were just making a gratuitous ad hominem. Do I have to spell these things out for you all the time?

8. Paul Sagar

This is actually surprisingly good.

9. sally

The trolls like knuckle draggers, like Little John better.

They prefer jokes about disabled people.

10. douglas clark

Well, I thought it was funny.

11. sally

“It’s better than having your fingers in Edwina Curry”

BOOM BOOM.

12. Mr Eugenides

@ Sunny: lol.

In fact, I must grudgingly admit that it’s not that bad… certainly better than most of us would manage!


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