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Milton Jones
Other footage
Nominated for the best headliner award in the Chortle Awards 2009 and 2010 – winning it in 2011 |
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Radio: 2003: The House Of Milton Jones, Radio 4 series |
Stand Up: 2004: Edinburgh Show: A Rough Guide to Milton Jones A Rough Guide to Milton Jones |
Stand Up: 2003: Time Out comedy award winner for best performance |
Stand Up: 1997: Nominated for the Perrier. Perrier |
Stand Up: 1996: Winner of Perrier best newcomer award Perrier |
The Horne Section |
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Isabelle Adam While Britain’s more established comedy clubs stick to playing it safe with their programming, there’s an increasing appetite for big nights out with a bit more soul – which is precisely where Alex Horne and his five-piece jazz-funk backing band come in. The Horne Section started life, as so many good things do, at the Edinburgh Fringe when our charmingly understated host decided ‘for the first time’ to meld the twin art forms of comedy and music into one delicious hybrid. Now it’s moved to London, with a couple of dates at the Soho Theatre and a Christmas bash at the Union Chapel – and you would be hard pressed to find a more fun night out. Horne’s air of affable underpreparedness and the spontaneous interactions between band and guests create a vibrant sense of unpredictability, while the toe-tapping music adds an uplifting extra element to the loosely structured shenanigans. The stylishlydressed band are fully integrated into the quirkily playful proceedings, providing everything from funky jingles for interludes such as the eccentric version of Battleships to improvised serenades to audience members; from a Morris-dance version of Beyonce’s Single Ladies to the accompaniment to the conga line that leads the audience out into the bar for the interval. Tonight’s eclectically curated variety night offers not just a comedy-music crossbread, however, but a multi-headed comedy-music-movement-juggling-poetry-multimedia chimera. First up, Milton Jones performs as his grandfather, a cardboard box on his head transporting him to various periods of history for typically offbeat, and often groanworthy, wordplay – although the real entertainment comes from the band struggling to find the appropriate incidental music to represent the various eras. Variety turns come from ‘gentleman juggler’ Matt Ricardo and his cigar boxes, and magician Pete Firman, with his cheesy Cooper-style failed tricks, a bit dated but reliably amusing. Dance-comedy double act New Art Club proved a bigger hit, though, affectionately mocking the pretensions of modern dance, while producing some nicely exaggerated physical comedy of their own. Finally, Horne’s frequent collaborator Tim Key treats the audience to his exquisitely mundane low-key poetry, all read from the back of pornographic playing cards, while dealing adeptly with a drunk birthday girl in the audience who just couldn't stand not being the centre of attention, rather out of character for this chummy night. What works so well is each act’s immersion into the world that Horne and his sidemen have created. Both the music and the winningly haphazard presentation put a stamp of distinctiveness on to the evening, which astute guests fully buy into, ensuring a consistent atmosphere and the feeling this is so much more than the sum of its already entertaining parts. This really is a Horne of plenty.
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Date of live review: Monday 15th Nov, '10 | |
Review by Steve Bennett |
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Saturday 17th Oct, '09- Brighton Dome | |
Show - Tour - Friday 28th Sep, '07- | |
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Witnessed the surreal,puerile, absurd,infantile -call it what you like! humour of Milton Jones at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. Delivered in a deadpan expression! reminiscent and worthy of any silent movie star, and I loved every minute of this silly pun laden gig. It's incredible how Milton has weaved all these puns together like some English equivalent of the Green Giant of corn or should I say puns! A retentive mind that entertained his audience with ludicrous anecdotes drawn in like - "moths to a flame" with his humour. The reaction of the audience said it all. Douglas Thomson, June 2011 |
Am I missing something? I saw Milton Jones last night at Queens Hall Edinburgh and really couldn't get into the corny puns that pass as his humour. Mel Winters, March 2011 |
I would rather be fisted by Joe Calzagie than sit through one more painful minute of clearly scripted puns. no orgininality, just cheap puns a five year old could have made. It sapped my will to live. Philip Schlee, January 2011 |
My wife and I saw Milton Jones on Friday July 2 at the George IV Chiswick and we both loved him. It was funny line after funny line. We are now both big fans. He is the Prince of Puns. Go see him; you’ll not be disappointed. Graeme & Eva Parker, July 2010 |
it's so predictable and dull and the radio shows are f'ing terrible. shit shit shit. so terrible it\'s painful, June 2010 |
Saw MJ headlining at Travestees Comedy Club at the Tor Centre in Glastonbury Wed 24 March 2010. Well worthwhile. Most enjoyable. Harry Grainger, March 2010 |
Saw him tonight at the Wycombe Town Hall, absolutely brilliant, I was in stitches. He is so underrated it hurts. Ian, November 2009 |
Brilliant. Not much more to say about this guy. Rhys Nicklin, September 2009 |
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Where Do Comedians Go When They Die? Journeys Of A Stand-Up, by Milton Jones 07/12/2009 Permanent link
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Where Do Comedians Go When They Die?: Journeys Of A Stand-Up by Milton Jones
DVD (2009):
Milton Jones: Live Universe Tour - Part 1, Earth
Milton Jones: A Rough Guide
Edinburgh Fringe 2011
Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer [Edinburgh 2011]
Misc live shows
BBC Comedy Presents... September 2008
Malcolm Hardee Charity Cabaret 2007
Tour
Milton Jones: Caught In A Rabbit's Headlights
Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer
Milton's Paradise Jones