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| July 11, 2013 | cambridge-news.co.uk | Cambridge News
The critical list: more hot tickets Cambridge Comedy Festival ᔡ David Trent: This Is All I Have, Cambridge Comedy Festival, Cambridge Junction, Thursday, July 18, at 7.30pm. Tickets £10.50 from (01223) 511511 or www.junction.co.uk
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F you research comedian David Trent, it’s pretty tricky. There’s the odd garbled review, an official website heavy with CAPITAL LETTERS. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. Happily there are quite a lot of YouTube videos, but interviews? Not so much. I had hoped that, being a Cambridgebased teacher, David might want to meet, but as tech heavy as he is in his comedy (he uses projectors, video clips and PowerPoint to maximum, cheek wobbling effect), it’s no wonder he preferred to chat over email instead. Here are the rather spiky results: What is This Is All I Have about? What should people expect? THIS IS ALL I HAVE is about making an audience of people laugh. People should be expecting a work in progress show that currently has 11 high quality routines which play out over an average running time of 54 minutes and 28 seconds. I’ve Googled you; you seem to like talking about yourself in the third person: why is that? David Trent has no idea what you’re talking about. He just Googled himself and saw absolutely zero evidence to support
this assertion. He wrote this himself. What did you do before PowerPoint? Do you think you could have become a comedian without it? Impossible. Before Powerpoint I just sat around wishing that someone would invent it. That’s why I didn’t even consider comedy until Windows had been invented. What did you do before Word? Could you have become a journalist without it? Your website says that last year you went to Edinburgh and “smashed the living **** out of it”. Are you planning to do the same again this year? My website does say that. You neglect to point out that it also states how I played nightly in a venue which held 56 people. Context is everything. What/who makes you laugh and why? Yesterday I laughed for about an hour at Richard Dawkins’ “Mutation of the Mind” on YouTube. I am laughing now thinking about it. I also laugh at Parks and Recreation. It is a TV show about the parks and recreation department of a town called Pawnee and concerns mainly humour based around the everyday situations of running a parks and recreation government department which may be where Parks and Recreation gets the name Parks and Recreation from. Who is your comic idol? Chris Morris. What are you most proud of? I make the most delicious mung dal with green chilli that you have ever tasted. What do you think of the Cambridge comedy scene? There are two comedy scenes in Cambridge, there’s the university scene and then there’s nothing else. What have you got lined up next? Upon completion of this interview I am going directly to John Lewis to buy my daughter some wellington boots.
‘Before Powerpoint I just sat around wishing that someone would invent it’
Festival top picks Funny Punts Granta Boat & Punt Co, Newnham Road, Tuesday, July 16, to Sunday, July 21, at 6.30pm and 7.45pm, £10 Former News columnist and standup Hannah Dunleavy will be taking to the water for an alternative tour of Cambridge shall we say . . . expect laughs, anecdotes and hopefully no falling in.
Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans: Joy and Wonder Cambridge Junction, J3, Thursday, July 18, at 9pm, £8.50
The comedy duo (he of the Longest Hug ever – officially, the Guinness Book of Records team say so, she a previous Edinburgh Award nominee), use improv, songs and chat as part of their Sunday Assembly show.
Seann Walsh Cambridge Junction, J2, Saturday, July 20, at 9pm, £10.50. Curly haired Walsh is on the up with an hour of “selfdeprecating silliness” and
All tickets from (01223) 511511 or www.junction.co.uk proof that he’s the Lie-in King. Expect LOLs aplenty.
Simon Munnery: Fylm Cambridge Junction, J2, Friday, July 19 at 9pm, £8.50. An imaginative blur of live gags, screens and sketches, projected and analysed for your entertainment. And the guy’s won quite a few awards so we’re prepared for great things.
Andrew Maxwell: Banana Kingdom Cambridge Junction, J2, Thursday, July 18 at 9pm, £10.50. The Live at the Apollo regular is talented at “making shrewd, balanced and very funny political observations” – so says his website. Better find LAUGH STORIES: From left, out if it’s Andrew Maxwell, Seann true. Walsh and Hannah Dunleavy