Far Too Funny List

I can't stop listening to this special

Hello!

Hope you are having a great week! I was away in the Somerset countryside this weekend for a little Babymoon.

I was then back gigging this week. I tried out two new routines. One is shaping up quite nicely. The other I was VERY excited about, only for it to die on its backside, twice! Well you live and learn!

Too Far Comedy will be back on Monday. You know the drill. Doors open at the Artillery Arms at 7.15pm.

😂 Far Too Funny List

• 📺 Watching - Australian comedian Reuben Solo brought out a new special on YouTube on April Fools, of all days, called Please Clap. It’s a very funny, unique show. If you like your Meta Comedy this one is for you. The show has a brilliant use of sound and lights throughout.

• 🎧 Listening - I may have just listened to one of my favourite ever specials on Apple Music. John Mulaney’s 2009 album Top Part. It’s on Spotify too. He’s incredible at telling stories that are vivid and that escalate to hilarious crescendos. There are three or four routines that I have been listening to on repeat. If you listen to just one, it has to be The Salt and Pepper Diner. It’s fantastic. I’m now really trying to incorporate this style when I sit down to write. Let’s see what happens there…

• 📕 Reading - I don’t think I’m a very nostalgic person. I’m not one of those people who are like “Life was better in the 90s! Urgh!” However. Josh Widdicombe has a sensational book called Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life. As a boy who loved watching Gladiators, Euro 96 and of course Neighbours (I have been to Ramsey Street and met Karl Kennedy), this is a terrific walk down memory lane. And because it’s Josh Widdicombe it’s very funny too!

🎤 Where you can see me perform

• Too Far Comedy - Monday 7, 14, 28 April | 7.15pm doors

  The Artillery Arms, Old Street, London

• Not So New Comedian of the Year 2025 - Wednesday 16 April | 7pm

  Museum of Comedy, Bloomsbury, London

• Lolipops - Tuesday 22 April | 6.30pm & 8pm

  The White Hart, Southwark, London

• Top and Bottom - Wednesday 23 April | 8pm

  The Book Club, Shoreditch, London

• Off The Grid - Wednesday 30 April | 8.30pm

  The Cocktail Club, Soho, London

If you want to book me for one of your comedy nights please email me.

Stay tuned for next week’s email. The application form to perform at Too Far Comedy in May and June will go live in this newsletter.

Be quick, 80% of the spots will be allocated to those who apply in the first 24 hours. The form will then be shared on the usual social media sites for the remaining spots.

That’s it for now. Hope to see you soon!

Richard

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“Far Too Funny List” is a collation of content that Richard Parr finds hilarious or valuable as a comedian. Richard is the MC of Too Far Comedy. It’s a new act, new material night at The Artillery Arms in Old Street, London starting at 7.30pm. This weekly newsletter also gives acts priority access to spots to perform when they become available.