Review Centre: Comedians

"At the show I attended, the genial Ken Margoe executed some impressive rope and card tricks, eliciting some of the biggest oohs and ahh's of the hour-long show."

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"I hosted a birthday party for my husband and hired Markus to do his mentalism act. He was spectacular, entertaining the 25 or so people who attended to their utter delight. My guests' age range spanned seven decades, but somehow he got the whole diverse audience laughing at his comedy and absolutely awestruck by his mentalism prowess. The birthday party turned out to be a wonderful occasion, due in large part to Markus' warm and welcoming presence as well as to all the tricks he has up his sleeve. I highly recommend you invite Markus to do his magic at your next gathering. He's a fantastic performer. If you're looking for a very special addition to whatever gathering you're having, he's your man!"

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"Thank you for all your support with supplying us with a fun and entertaining magic performance and roving act during our Division 4 Senior’s Expo. Our seniors and all the exhibitors thoroughly enjoyed your entertainment. We appreciate you joining us for this day. We wish you all the best for your future endeavours."

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"Zach a true class act and so talented, we loved having him for our event at The Artist Tree!"

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"When I was a student in high school, Denny used to perform his hypnotist show for us and it was so funny and memorable that now as a high school staff member, I couldn't wait to bring him back for my students. His show was hilarious and lived up to every expectation. It was exactly the mental health break and senior celebration we needed, and the students loved it. I have never seen 400 students so captivated in an assembly. I hope to have him back - highly recommend!"

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"Dylan was really funny, he did a great show, was very responsive to emails. He made doing a virtual show look like a breeze and had everyone laughing. I’ve got so much positive feedback from the show and look forward to booking him again, and recommending him to everyone!"

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"We spoke after your show, Half Soaked. I really enjoyed it, and thought you delivered some great jokes. I really enjoy your story telling, the way you interact with the audience and the enjoyment you find from making others laugh is very apparent. I hope you continue with it!"

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"Joe puts up funny videos on social which are a funny quick laugh for your day. I forward them to my boys and husband! During shut down he did a zoom stand up. He talked about family and friends and told the stories as if he were just hanging out talking to you. The set was very natural and we laughed the whole time! Being a funny communicator come natural for him and it shows in his sets!! I can’t wait for the next show or video!"

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"The first time I saw Mimirichi, last year at the Edinburgh Fringe, I knew I would have to put them at the core of my fiendish and cunning plan for world domination. Mimirichi would leave everyone weak with laughter and begging me for more of the fun, and, of course, I would be a benign autocrat, sending Mimirichi out on a world-wide mission to sponsor their own brand of warm fuzziness and community spirit. In this cold, competitive world Mimirichi liberates hearts and minds and promotes participation and collaboration. The awful thing is that they are only at the Riverside Studios for TWO nights (until 1st July)! Please, please, rush down to Hammersmith and secure tickets for yourself, all your family (especially menopausal aunts and grumpy old men), your evil-minded neighbours, your traffic wardens and rouge traders, your bank manager and your boss. The four-man creative team at the heart of the mad, mad world of Mimirichi are superb physical performers who start off with some simple slapstick and build to a breathtaking break-dancing finale. But their secret lies in their generosity and the way they engage us with their world. This is a place where the imagination can transform paper into anything we want it to be and half of the fun is the delight in collaborating with them to make these transformations happen. It is a clown theatre for young and old alike, because it's full of the familiar and everyday. Mimirichi's Paper World is peopled with recognizable characters. There's the little guy with the broom overwhelmed by litter bugs on the rampage. And perhaps it's the same voracious paper-munching clown evolving into a despot who gets himself crowned with pomp and circumstance, and, to push the point home, also devours handbags and jackets from among the audience. I guarantee that by the end of the 85-minute show you will be shouting, screaming, pelting each other with paper, passing great swathes of the stuff back and forth and even eager to step onto the stage and be transformed into a goal-keeper for a paper football penalty or a beauty queen. At the core of this age-old humour there is an odd but recognizable logic at work, an absurd logic, or even illogical logic, perhaps, but once we accept the rules it all makes perfect sense (something like when Charlie Chaplin's starving tramp cooks his boots and eats them with perfect table manners and social etiquette). Mimirichi's gags are reminiscent of these extended comic scenarios from the Commedia lazzi and the silent movies. For example, a man desperate to find a public urinal is given increasingly complicated directions by a street cleaner in which each round of mimed instructions seems to take the longed for relief further away on a journey that includes swimming and punting across a river. Mimirichi put us in touch with a part of ourselves we don't pay much attention to these days. They belong to a long tradition of European clowning that includes the great zannis of Commedia dell'Arte, Chaplin and Keaton, Max Wall, Mayall and Edmondson and so on. This is an eternal and universal form of clowning, the carnivalesque, the Lords of Misrule, rather than the sanitized comic turns fed to children in 20th century circuses. In days gone by, this type of carnival event was considered dangerous by princes and municipalities, so that the travelling performers where often borderline outlaws. Happily, Mimirichi are completely legit, but they still can show us a few things that authoritarian rulers feared: that what usually passes for logic is suspect, and that a creative and imaginative response can present alternative solutions to traditions we take for granted. Perhaps, we should send them to the G8 Summit. If you cannot make it down to the Riverside Studios tonight go instead to a tattooist and have MIMIRICHI inscribed on your forehead, so that you will recognize their name should they come to a venue close to you at a future date."

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"We do large events every year with 100-200 clients. Joseph was by far the best entertainment we have ever had. There is always a “risk” with hiring an entertainer you have never seen in person – and we have had other entertainers (singers, magicians) go poorly in the past. Save yourself the trouble of working with other people and hire Joseph, you will be EXTREMELY IMPRESSED! We look forward to having him back! "

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"You are truly gifted and your prices are fair and perfect for the service that you provide. You know how to get a crowd going! I've used your services for many of my events both charity and non-charity and you are worth every single penny!! Carl, you are fabulous darling."

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"Todd is a wonderful, gifted performer. You can’t go wrong booking him at your events. He can perform corporate clean, but still leave the audience in stitches. Todd is easy to work with and a consummate professional. On time, well dressed and is great with an audience or one-on-one."

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"We really enjoyed your performance today. I was sitting in the audience and you captured our attention. We were laughing and it was just so energetic and so natural and it was so fun and joyous. We enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you so much"

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"We had brilliant feedback from our friends. They were truly impressed and dumbfounded! I loved that even sober Jake has no idea how the cross got onto his hand. But the best bit of feedback we had was when they said you were the highlight of the night! We have done this christmas get-together for the past 6 years and it has gone down as the best one and that was mainly down to you. Also, I must mention how lovely it was how you included Evie in the evening. She was so chuffed to be part of the grown-ups fun."

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"Highly recommend! We had Chris P Tee for my daughters 5th birthday. He was absolutely fantastic. Really funny for both kids and adults and genuinely lovely. Thanks you Chris ?"

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