A night at Boom-Tish! Comedy Night

Tom Barrie, Co-Creator and host of Boom-Tish!, opening the evening's proceedings

This week Liz and I were invited along to the Boom-Tish! comedy club at the Music Palace in Crouch End.

Boom-Tish! is a much more established club than the new Hornsey Comedy Club I went to a few weeks back and it feels like it. There was a very different vibe to the night. The club seems to be favoured by the Crouch End starlet demi-monde scene. Along with Crouch Ender Tamsin Outhwaite, the room was peppered with faces I half recognised from somewhere on the small or big screen or the London stage. Perhaps it was this in part that brought an excited edginess to the polite good natured crowd and made it feel more club than pub. 

The evening was split into the standard two halves with three acts in each. None of the performances was bad and all got a warm reception from an audience who came with their funny bones exposed. But, for me there were three standouts from the evening. 

Joshua Ross closed the first half with a set rich in self-deprecating anecdotal Jewish humour. Phil Wang, was perhaps the BBC (British Born Chinese) response to Joshua. He set the tone for his performance when he opened with “Hi, my name’s Phil Wang. I’m the answer to the question What would if look like if Gok Wang got fat. Hi, my name's Phil Wang. I’m the answer to the question, What would it look like if Michael McIntyre had a child with...............Gok Wang”. The third standout, and the most accomplished comedian of the night was Sam Savage. Sam’s slightly off-the-wall no nonsense Essex Girl humour was a hit with the crowd and they responded warmly when she was judged the best act of the night by the seventies style clapometer.

I enjoyed the evening and the top three comedians certainly got a few laughs out of me. If you like your comedy nights a bit raw and more home-made in a pub environment with pub quality beer, I’d give the Hornsey Comedy Club a go. But, if you like a slightly more established vibe with a little starlet-dust sprinkled around, and you can live with caned beer, Boom-Tish! is certainly worth a visit.

The final of their current round Boom-Tish! talent nights in on 7th December.

Link: www.boomtish.co.uk