No ire here, Brenda doesn't go in for ire. Your friend is dead right about the best place for comedy being at a small stand-up gig where audience and performer can see the whites of each other's eyes. I used to go to one in the upstairs room of my local pub, saw loads of great acts, quite a few of which have gone on to Radio 4 fame. Sadly the promoter gave up doing them because of lack of audience, but that was his own fault for putting on a three-month run of unfunny acts. I miss those evenings though.
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