COMEDY: GIG OF THE WEEK: Boothby Graffoe Tue
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Your support makes all the difference.Any comedian who names himself after a village in Lincolnshire is bound to be a little bit different, and Boothby Graffoe certainly is. At six foot four and with a magnetic stage presence, Graffoe simply demands attention. With his booming voice, he wins people over through sheer force of personality. "I only have a good rapport with the audience because I haven't got any friends," he says. Don't ask him to sum up his stand- up style, though. "I dunno," he reflects. "Maybe I should stick to `abstract surrealism with a streak of japery', as one critic put it." He is hosting a strong Comedy Network bill which features the mesmerising nonsense of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt in The Mighty Boosh, and the double-bass tomfoolery of Jim Tavare, alongside mysterious "special guests".
The Talk of London, New London Theatre, London WC2 (0171-771 2000) Tue
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