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For those of you commenters who were concerned, I saw AK alive and well on Friday night in the Kukhuri in Reading. So no cause for concern. I still haven't mentioned to him that this blog has upgraded to the new version and he'll need a new login... I think it'll talk him through that when/if he next logs in.

On Saturday night I went to the Concert Hall in the Town Hall to watch Sean Hughes. My brother (the one who isn't in Pete and the Pirates) got me the tickets for my birthday, which was very nice of him. I hadn't actually been to anything at the Concert Hall before and probably wouldn't have even thought of getting tickets myself so it was a random but excellent present. Anyway, the Concert Hall is a bizarre venue for comedy. As Sean mentioned in the show, probably most comedians mention it. It's incredibly grand looking and has a massive organ at the back of the stage. Nice setting though. I have been to Jongleurs a couple of times for peoples birthdays etc. and whilst that was fun, I think I will try and go to more stuff like this at the Concert Hall and South Street in future. It's a pretty decent ticket price and the drinks are pub prices. Plus there's no pressure to buy really overpriced terrible food boxes like you get at Jongleurs. Oh yeah, and you can order your drinks for the interval before the show which is nice although it is allowed to buy drinks in the BBBs and take them upstairs with you, saving yourself about 15p a pint.

I'm not sure why but after both occasions I went to Jongleurs people asked me "was it funny?". Well... yes. It was really funny both times. That's kind of the point. Actually I've never been to see comedy where it wasn't funny. At uni one guy died absolutely horribly but I'm not sure why, I thought he was good and I was laughing but people didn't seem to get him. So to preempt the question, yes, Sean was really funny. If anyone fancies checking some comedy at the Concert Hall Rich Hall is on on Friday. Although it may be sold out for all I know...