Lee Mack
26 September 1999
The Comedy Cavern celebrated its first anniversary with a cracking show by Lee Mack. Lee is an animated comedian from up North who has the kind of personality that can get away with any kind of cracks at the audience without creating a bad feeling. ‘Hmm, Bath... it’s a bit posh, isn’t it? Shoes and that. ’He made much of his background and the homilies passed on to him by his Mam. ‘There are only three kinds of people in the world,’ she’d told him when he was young. ‘Those that can count and those that can’t.
’Chris Gibbs is an engaging performer who started slow but soon created a warm rapport with the audience. He did animal tricks with a balloon (a disabled octopus and a worm with a blister being two of the more unusual) culminating in a forward somersault where the balloon was supposed to bounce him back up. It burst, but fortunately the ground broke his fall.
The new act spot was filled by Eric Petrossian, an excellent young comedian who brought the house down with his musings on the possibilities of a Muppets version of Shakespeare. The Count, he said, would make a fine Henry V. ‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, twice more unto the breach...’
Matthew Zuckerman