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SHOW REVIEW 

Blowing Smoke-Velvet Lounge 

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The Velvet Lounge is a Shisha bar in Kilburnie Street, Glasgow in the most northernly part of the southside close to the River Clyde.  This is a new night being run by brilliant Zubair Ashgar who also hosts the show. 

 

The show highlights the diversity of the Glasgow comedy circuit and began with the comedian from Zimbabwe Sean Reid whose comedy revolves around musings on his former single life in contract with his current parenthood of 4 children born close together. 

 

Next up was Claude Mana whose act took in diverse subjects such as the then ongoing situation with Venezuela and the United States, the disgraced former Prince Andrew and Nigel Farage.  Claude also added a little local flavour by discoursing on the mistreat of Neds and their shell-suits along with how meanings in the local dialect are off to outsiders.  

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Gita Blaze from the Baltic state of Latvia was up next who began with an excellent joke about the use of the word Baltic by a Glasgow taxi driver as her introduction to her life in Glasgow and her comedy recounts her experiences of life in Glasgow as a European immigrant.

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Charlie Wallace was the token white of the night.  He described himself as having short guy energy and that his Glasgow friends had named him 'Fanny Devito'.  He also joked about his bad accent and it's effect on his karaoke singing.  

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The headliner was the rising comedy star from North London  Mary O'Connell.  She delivered a impressively confident and self assured performance with comedy narratives about the absurdity of contemporary office practices, about email etiquette, and about living in the city of London versus life in the countryside.    

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