Review by Paul Towers, 26/4/26
Peggs Comedy Club
Produced by Laffalot Promotions
After an unavoidable 10 month hiatus Peggs
Comedy Club night is back and will be a quarterly event.
A balmy Sunday night in Swadlincote and I was
ripe for an evening of laughs, and Jordan and the Laffalot crew gave us just
that.
Peggs Bar is tucked away in a hidden corner
of Swadlincote but is well worth the search. Not only does it stage various
events but has a reputation for awesome street food.
A packed house waited expectantly for our
evening of mirth. First up was MC for the event Andy Gleeks, a Northern Irish
breath of fresh air who worked the crowd expertly before introducing us to our
first comic turn, Ashley Frieze, a larger than life character with a talent for
hilarious original songs. My stand out favourite was his version of George and
Zippy from Rainbow singing Britney Spears’ Baby Hit Me One More Time. A great
start to the proceedings.
After a beer break Andy introduced us to Mark
Row. By day Mark is a drama teacher, by night he is a stand up comedian whose
speciality is, understandably, kids, his own and his pupils. My favourite gag
of his was when he talked about how his daughter spent her nose in her phone
all the time, “like a pound shop Steven Hawkins!”. I almost wet myself so I was
glad we got another ‘comfort break’.
The final act of the evening was Pat Monahan.
I remember him from a TV show called Show Me The Funny back in 2011. Tonight he
gave us an astonishing stream of consciousness riffing off the audience. It
seemed there was nothing he could glean from the assembled patrons that he couldn’t
get a laugh from. Often he came back to the same people wringing even more laughs
from them.
By the time I stumbled out into the cooling
Sunda evening my stomach hurt from laughing so much.
Check out the links below for further comedy
nights from Laffalot
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