Shenanigans Liverpool reviews by real event-goers

Review of Up4dacraic’s stand up comedy night

Best night there is. Free comedy and everyone so friendly. Such a good pub and vibe

Review of Shenanigans open mic night

Enjoyable night, love seeing raw comics , up and coming plus the special lucky nights seeing pro comics try new stuff. It is great that the MC and Shenanigans provide the platform for such nights.

Excellent Guinness too and great craic for Irish music below!

Review of Up4dacraic open mic comedy night

Amazing night of comedy

Review of North West Comedy Killer

This is actually a double review:

How does one describe an event that was so bad, so poorly run that we found ourselves looking for the exit within minutes of walking in?
Unfortunately, the only thing that was funny was how cripplingly awkward it all was. The venue was small, only one way in/out. The audience (of four people) was so small that the comedians were focusing all their non-gags on the tiny little audience. Some of the intense eye-contact became so uncomfortable that we found ourselves looking away, often down.. My partner and I very quickly agreed to leave as soon as we could. To be fair though we did the event a chance and we stayed for the first three comedians. The first was too bothered about whether he'd had his four minutes and I could see that he really wanted to get off the stage as quickly as possible. The second wasn't that much better. The third and final comedian helped us accelerate our decision to leave. He was just bad in all departments made jokes about drug taking and suicide! Lovely.

Constructive feedback time: I think it would be helpful if the room wasn’t a clique of comedians. All the jokes were “in-jokes” and only the people who understood the context laughed. We didn’t. It took around an hour, maybe two of “recovery” time for us to forget the awkward horror of the event. It should be advertised as the “the awkward comedy horror show”. I sincerely hope nobody else has to endure what we had to.


Here's the second..

I have lost all faith in the phrase: “ don’t judge a book by its cover”. This event was living, breathing ( as was the mould infesting the venue) proof of why it is perfectly acceptable- even advisable- to judge a book by its cover.

Had we been deterred by the sepsis coloured shack’s exterior, we might have saved ourselves from enduring the worst stand up event ever recorded in history.

Tragically, upon the realisation that if either me or my partner left would mean inadvertently halving the audience, we understood we had made a monumental blunder in our choice of evening’s entertainment.

Not only did the comedians appear reluctant and as if deliberately relinquishing of any charisma, it was also abundantly apparent they were ill- prepared to what should have been an illegal extent. But being the only audience members, we had nowhere to hide and thus no choice but to embrace the excruciating awkwardness of the piss poor performances whereby the tragic standard of the material was matched only by the diabolical delivery.

It wasn’t long before, having already resorted to suicide and coccaine usage as a comedic talking point, the comics stooped even lower into the humourless abyss of misogyny and racism. Needless to say, the merciless material catalysed our actioning of our ( and I must stress pre-made) decision to leave imminently at the nearest opportunity.

Review of North West Comedy Killer

A pity there wasn't more of a crowd but it was kinda cool to see a group of young (ish) up and coming Scouse comedians honing their craft and literally having to think - or go blank - on their feet! Someone needs to look up what a beaver is... Well worth a fiver if you're interested in grass roots comedy.