Friday, January 23, 2009

The OxStu have said a number of very nice things about our show. If I can scan a copy and save it somewhere, I will. They said our writing "rings with confidence as it strays into the complex or ridiculous", and that ours was a show where "each joke comes from round a corner, unexpected and entertainly so".

They also discussed our show's no-sex-and-swearing-and-controversy ethos in positive terms. That's good: I did half expect some reviewer to mistake that for unnecessary prudishness, when nothing could be further from the truth. After all, a recent Cherwell review of the Revue criticised them for not having much satirical or topical material at a time when there are plenty of newsworthy events, as if it's valid for reviewers to criticise what is not in a show regardless of the quality of what is. In fact, the idea of doing as we have in our sketches is described as "noble", and the reviewer also suggests that it is one which "all our comics should put their hand, to prevent stagnation".

I am simultaneously 25, and delighted. Cherwell review tomorrow.

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