On Saturday, SWMBO and I went to a Jongleurs On The Road evening at Swindon Town FC.
The host was Matt Rudge and the featured comedians were Brendan Dempsey, Tony Hendriks and Ria Lina.
Matt being host, got the job of warming up the audience and he did this well, letting the mostly Swindon based and supporing audience know that he was from Bristol. he got the audience involved, quite mercilessly where required and kept the gig flowing.
Dempsey is an early 40's male whose act was based a lot around the getting old and losing tolerance with things like kids, noise and getting old.
Tony Hendriks is an apparently white Jamaican (very light skinned mixed heritage) who uses his background to great effect in his material.
Ria is a mixed heritage elfin girl (who it turns out has been married for 10 years, is step mum to a 16 year old and has 3 kids of her own) who makes good use of a ukelele with songs such as 'Mail Order bride' 9harking back to her Filipino heritage or 'I was jus about to come when you came'.
All acts used a bit of shock com material but an enjoyable night
