Monkey business blog 2012
Saturday 7 January 2012
The Oxford had a full house tonight and The Steeles was half full ,but the shows were highly enjoyed at both clubs.
The acts on at both venues were
Spencer Brown
Simon Munnery
Nick Doody
A really enjoyable new act night which included
Dimple Pau
Saturday 15 January 2012
Both venues enjoyed a good night with these acts
controversial
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Suzi Ruffell
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very enjoyable comic
Matt Green
Saturday 21 January 2012
We had almost a full house at both venues with similar bills.
Alex Horne from
Horne Section
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Geoff Boyz
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musical comic
Kate Lucas
hilarious
Dan & Dan
and
was brilliant and stormed it .
Saturday 28 January 2012
Our show tonight was really challenging at The Steeles as the result of a group of youngsters who wouldent stop chatting.
multi award winning
STEPHEN GRANT
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hilarious showman
SOL BERNSTEIN
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entertaining musical madness comedy
Tom Adams
enjoyable magic fr0m
Stu Turner
Thursday 2 February 2012
Ed Surname
Saturday 4 February 2012
A lovely receptive audience at both venues enjoyed
the excellent multi award winning stand up
Andy Zaltzman
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BBC's Michael McIntyre Comedy Roadshow star
Ava Vidal
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and enjoyable stand up
Tez Ilyas
Friday 10 February 2012
I am very happy to see an excellent review in the Islington gazette
Saturday 11 February 2012
We were quite at both venues but our shows were very strong which included
very funny
STEVE SHANYASKI
brilliant stand up
Nick Doody
entertaining showman
Wes Zaharuk
Thursday 16 February 2012
A TOP SECRET SET FROM
MAGNUS BETNER
Saturday 18 February 2012
Both clubs had almost full houses with very sucsessful shows
Our smashing acts tonight were
excellent stand up
Martin Coyote
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radio presenter on talk sport
funny man
Matt Forde
American comic
TAYLOR GLENN
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Spencer Brown
&
Martin Hill
Saturday 25 February 2012
JEFF INNOCENT
+ 20 year old
& hilarious
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Ray Presto dies at 74 : News 2012 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
www.chortle.co.uk
Ray Presto
RIP RAY PRESTO.I am sad about this news.Ray was a regular at Monkey Business who made many people laugh.
Also sadly RIP Davie Jones from The Monkeys lost his life today
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Matt Forde
presenter of TalkSport radio and I were the two guests on FM radio in Hammersmith .
We had lots of fun and laughs during our hour on air
Thursday 1 March 2012
A really smashing night with some big named acts on the bill including ITV`S Shjow me the funny winner Patrick Monahan
Patrick Monahan performing at Monkey Business on 1/3 12
Saturday 3 March 2012
We had a full house at The Sir Richard Steele with a hugely entertaining show
which the audience loved .The performers were
Mock The Week Star
Andi Osho
Matthew Osborn
Norwegian
Daniel Simonsen
and Canadian comic
Peter White
Thursday 8 March 2012At our new act night tonight
were really good
Saturday 10 March 2012
THE NOISE NEXT DOOR
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posh sketch duo
Croft & Pearce
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fantastic stand up
Geoff Boyz
Roisin Conaty
and
cheeky cockney newcomer
Glen 'Lenny' Sherman
Saturday 17 March 2012
& winner of ITV`s Show me the funny
PATRICK MONAHAN
photo of Patrick Monahan taken on Sat 17 March 2012
highly enjoyable
top visting Canadian stand up
Peter White
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Thursday 22 March 2012
Patrick Monahan
& Nathan Caton
Saturday 24 March 2012
We had good night with
unique musical double act
RAYGUNS LOOK REAL ENOUGH
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Irish stand up
Shane Todd
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I am feel delighted to have been asked to host a young films peoples award
on Tuesday 24 April with some well known film makers who will be in the audience.
Saturday 31 March 2012
A happy full house enjoyed a fab show from
the excellent multi award winning stand up
Andy Zaltzman
plus
plus
Bobby Mair
plus
David Mills
Thursday 5 April 2012
and
Saturday 7 April 2012
highly entertaining showman
Wes Zaharuk
Stephen Carlin
. plus
very amusing crowd pleasing
comic from Norway
funny stand up/story teller/
tv personality & ex top model
Michelle De Swarte
Thursday 12 April 2012
Some top acts came to perform including
Nathan Caton
and top magic man
Alan Hudson
Thursday 19 April 2012
A packed house enjoyed a secret performances by both
LEE NELSON doing new charactors for his up and coming BBC3 TV show
and Patrick Monahan trying out new stuff
and Alan Hudson and others
Also today Monkey Business has a half page piece about our fund raiser show next week
Saturday 21 April 2012
A full house a great audience
A wonderful show made for a perfect evening
Our acts tonight included
The Noise Next Door
Lucy Porter
and
Fergus Craig
Saturday 28 April 2012
Our show tonight for K9 Angels (dog rescue abroad) was brillant
We raised approx £600 thanks to the acts that performed which included
Abandoman
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Daniel Simonsen
and
Kate Lucas
K9 ANGELS with t v personality Cindy Jackson
and Spyros 
To top up a fantastic night
Simon Cowell
got in touch thanking blessing us for putting on the show.
Tuesday 1 May 2012
The most famous and most succsessful comic in the UK
Harry Hill
has put in four dates with me May 30 June 13 ,14 ,and 15 ,Its very exciting
Thursday 3 May 2012
Lee Nelson popped in doing a brilliant set
Saturday 5 May 2012
Almost a full house ,and our show was excellent with
Henning When 
,
Nick Doody
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Lewis Shaffer 
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Funbags
Don Biswas
,and Michelle De Swarte 
Sol Bernstein 
and 
charming Laura Carr
who passed away today aged 89.
Spencer Brown
Thursday 6 September 2012
The brilliant Magnus Betner who headlined made it a memorable night in the end
Saturday 8 September 2012
It was a very warm evening with just a small crowd of approx 30 people in
but our show was probably the best in London
which included a secret appearance
by Lee Nelson
Andy Zalzman
Jeff Innocent
Manos
and visiting jewish American
Maria Schultz
It was a very good night ,but made a bit diffilcult by a couple of drunks
Tuesday 11 September 2012
Took advantage of my guest tickets to see Rock Of Ages
in the West End.It was a good fun musical
Thursday 13 September 2012
ED PETRIE
+ Funmbi Omotayo
,Kate Lucas ,Lewis Schaffer
were amongst the acts that entertained tonight
Thursday 20 September 2012
A good sized audience which was a best in quite a while enjoyed a great night which included
some great headline acts
JOE ROWNTREE 
and Mark Maire
Wayn Deakon
and from Britain`s got talent Gatis Kandis
Saturday 22 September 2012
Mock the Week star
Ava Vidal 
Paddy Lennox
Ola
Andy Storey
who spilt the room with some loving him ,but others not knowing what to make of him
Saturday 29 September 2012
three main acts tonight
THE NOISE NEXT DOOR
Matthew Osborn
Ellie Taylor
Thurs 4 Oct 2012
Headlined by
INDA MANOCHA
and
Never Mind the Buzzcocks star
CELIA PACQUOLA
It was a really nice night.
Satuday 6 October 2012
SCOTT CAPURRO,
Fergus Craig
Patrick Morris
Vahid Jahangard
El Baldiniho
Saturday 13 October 2012
We had a full house for the first time in ages
thanks partly to Time Out highliting us in their magazine this week
RICH FULCHER from The MIGHTY BOOSH
Johnny Awsum
Foil, Arms and Hog
Sam Savage
Dan Moss
provided the great entertainment
and here I am on the night
Thursday 18 October 2012
popping in as an audience member tonight was
Jerry Sadowitz
and the performers included
Lewis Schaffer
and magic man
Casper Thomas
Saturday 20 October 2012
It was busy ,but it was one of those rare nights where no act
could please an ice cold audience .
Acts included Danny Buckler.Chris Martin, Elliot Mason ,and Casper Thomas
Again Jerry Sadowitz was an audience member
Thursday 25 October 2012
a great Thursday show with some fantastic performances from some star performers including
LIAM SPIERS
GREG BURNS
DAN & DAN
and
LEWIS SCAFFER
Saturday 27 October 2012
It was a nice strong bill with some great performances from
Carey Marx
Rayguns Look Real Enough
Asher Treleaven
Funmbi Omotayo
and Shane Todd
which included a suprise visit from an ex Swedish girlfriend from when we were both very young and her cousin .
Saturday 3 November 2012
We had a really enjoyable show with a warm audience and great performances from
SPENCER BROWN
Elliot Mason
Tez Ilya
and
Ryan Withers
Thursday 10 November 2012
A cracking eving with some smashing performes including one from
Cate Mackenzie
doing her first ever gig
Saturday 12 November 2012
A wonderful night had by both audience and performers that included
NATHAN CATON
magician Alan Hudson
Stuart Mitchell
and Ian Smith
Monday 12 November 2012
A COMEDY DEBATE WAS HELD
All parts of The comedy industry CAME together at The Monkey Business Comedy Club
The Sir Richard Steele
to take part in in a COMEDY DEBATE (first of it`s kind)
It was an be an open and honest debate from
It was chaired brilliantly by PETER GRAHAME from the Kings Head comedy club and our guests included
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Monkey Business had a VIP showing of Eric Idle`s hugely entertaining
What About Dick? starring TIM CURRY ERICIDLE TRACY ULLMAN BILLY CONNELLY and EDDY IZZARD
which was well recieved . Afterwards the whole cast came together to tweet
RUSSELL BRAND revealed in one of his tweets that he thinks he is still banned from The Sir Richard Steele from his wild days .
Saturday 17 November 2012
A wonderful night of comedy
A happy audience enjoyed
Multi Award winning
Lucy Porter
Julian Dean
Kate Lucas
& making her Monkey Business debut fab
Ingrid Dahle
Saturday 24 November 2012
Another excellent night with
JOEY PAGE
ELLIOT MASON
AHIR SHAR
Docter Frida
Monday 26 November 2012
When chatting today to TV comic
Jack Whitehall today
He told me that he is still a virgin .
Thursday 29 November 2012
A great night with , The four best acts on the night were
LEWIS SCHAFFER
Stuart Mitchell
