Zoe Lyons, Damo Clarke and Brian Higgins

Friday night is comedy night at the Fox, but being Good Friday a slightly smaller crowd than normal. Indeed I could only find Thibault to go with me. And that as it turned out meant we saw rather a lot of each other as we sloped off to the pub together after work on Thursday night. And then after a couple of pints decided to go for dinner. And after dinner, we went for another pint. One of those nice evenings when one is enjoying oneself so want it to continue beyond its expected length, which we tend to do by going for another drink. Funnily enough the same happened the following Thursday with a rather larger group of us after a leaving drinks for one of our colleagues going on maternity leave. Again we didn't really need another drink, but half a dozen of us still went on to the nearby Piano Bar, just because we were enjoying each other's company. That's nice (if not necessarily for our livers).

Anyway, back to Good Friday at the Fox. I only knew of the headline act, Zoe Lyons, so a bit of a journey into uncharted waters.

First up was a Scottish comic, Brian Higgins. He was actually rather good. A bit lacking in material I would say, but good delivery. Particularly nice routine about his wife going into labour. A very Glaswegian comic - fair bit of drunkenness and the self-deprecating view of a Glaswegian, confident he knows everything when he knows little. This was expressed in knowledgeably explaining all the technical terms relating to childbirth, but getting them all wrong. "And they introduced the baby" (rather than induced, that sort of thing. Well it was funny when he said it.

Which was more than could be said about Damo Clarke, an Aussie who filled the middle spot. Very weak.

Zoe however was better than I had seen her in panel shows on TV. Its a different skill set really. She really took the night by the scruff of the neck and charged through the routine. I wouldn't say brilliant, but certainly good enough for us in the back of a pub in Palmer's Green.