Comedy Store

Posted on 2009/01/15 19:16:22 (January 2009).

[Sunday 11th January]
The main event of today was a trip to the Comedy Store in the evening (see below), however we also had a wander around Knightsbridge in the daytime.

I fancied some kind of soup noodles for lunch, so we swallowed our pride and went to the Wagamama in Knightsbridge for lunch. It wasn't that bad I suppose. I noticed (not atypically) that the vegetarian offering had been conflated with the healthy option. The vegetarian soup noodles dish came by default with "wholewheat noodles". I objected to this notion, and made a point about this when ordering, asking for the wholewewat noodles to be replaced with the unhealthiest noodles they had, and then ordered the least healthy possible side dish (which turned out to be deep fried gyoza).

After that Chie wanted to have a wander around Harveys Nicks, which I accompanied her for a while, but then eventually lost interest in her standard meandering and aimless approach to shopping. So I decided to go my own way, and embarked on a pleasant stroll past Hyde Park Corner, along Piccadilly, to Soho.

I'd wanted to visit The Vintage House to buy a Port Ellen, but once I actually got there I found the staff to be a bit useless and so was put off actually buying anything. Their loss.

Last Year's New Resolution to do more things in London had began to flounder somewhat, largely due to a couple of very unfortunate visits to the theatre / opera which led me to the conclusion I actually didn't really like live performances a whole lot.

However, one of the success stories of last year in this vein was going to see The Importance of Being Earnest, and it occurred to me there was a simple formula - if it was funny, I'd probably like it.

So this year I shall probably be steering clear of opera and avant garde theatre, however I think I will try and see a bit more comedy.

To that end, today we had booked tickets for The Comedy Store to see The Comedy Store Players including Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence.

They do a sort of Whose Line is it Anyway? style improvisation show. I was initially a bit worried about taking Chie along to see British comedy, thinking she might just sit there bored and not get any of it, but actually improvisation seemed to work really well - a certain amount of is visual, and they tend to change subjects quite frequently.

Although I did have to spend some time explaining what a Walnut Whip is.

Anyway, definitely a successfuly night out.

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