Garofalo is utterly talentless. What a loser.

Climb back into that Venice Beach cocoon, Janeane.

If only her exit were permanent...

So Garofalo goes on a talk show to complain about liberals not having a voice in America. Immediately after the show she gets a stage all to herself for half an hour to say anything she pleases and what does she do? She walks off the stage after only 10 minutes. BRILLIANT! She's such an arse!

Fabulous! The UK also sees her for the no talent hack she is. Couldn't happen to a nicer person.

Screaming, prejudice and vitriol are no replacement for talent.

This so-called political commentator wants to joke about how she's inconvenienced by post 9/11 security checks in a world in which people are being blown to shreds by explosions daily. And then she's surprised that no one finds it funny? Hard to know whether she's a worse comedienne or human being.

I suppose the audience no longer take airport security lightly? Garafalo gets the opportunity to spread her liberalism and doesn't run with it. I thought the English love us now we have a new POTUS and all. . .

Another no-talent irrelevant twit badmouthing the US abroad. How about trying it in front of a US audience? You will be forgotten faster than the Dixie Chicks.

Janeanes performance was an utter shambles. She should give British audiences more credit, we understood the 'jokes' perfectly, just didn't laugh at them. However it meant Ed Byrne had an extended performance which was the highlight of the festival so thank you Janeane.

We apologize to our British friends for sending this boob to 'entertain' you. We do have a sense of humor here, really!

Ms Garofalo is an outright liar when she says; "The media in the States is much more to the right. I mean there is almost no liberal outlet for news commentary or editorializing." The MSM is in the bag for this administration. Anyone with an IG higher than their shoe size knows this. Here in the US we call NBC, MSNBC, CBS and ABC; Obama's state run media. J. Immelt the head of GE, parent co of NBC is now on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. How convenient.

You see what we in the colonies have to put up with? This no-talent creep is typical of the Hollywood crowd here on this side of the pond. She's among the people who gleefully called Sarah Palin a quitter. We like Sarah Palin almost as much as her distant cousin Michael. (All right, I made up that last bit. I don't know if they're REALLY related. That would be amusing, though)

UK audiences are not loud americans. I have heard comics say that they laugh inside in the UK and not out loud like Americans. It doesn't mean you are not being accepted, they are just quieter audiences. She stabbed herself by leaving early. They probably WERE enjoying her tirade.

The U.S. Treasury Dept. of Public Debt recently posted a job opening for a "humorist" to come in and entertain their management during their meetings. Garofolo is perfect for this job. She can go tout her sophomoric neo-liberal agenda and have the clowns responsible for wasting American tax money on idiot agendas like hers rolling on the floor laughing out loud for hours at how silly and stupid and ignorant and immature they all are. They don't need legalized pot to laugh uncontrollably at her and themselves - they just need each other to support one another's comical delusions of reality.

Thanks, UK, for treating this miserable, hateful, and spiteful Obama shill with the scorn and ridicule it so richly deserves. CHEERS!

Can she think of nothing for her routine but USA-bashing, still? Sooo lame & so done already.

The problem is that the UK has had similar checks not just in Airports, but in department stores etc for decades, due to the IRA bombings, long before 9/11. Bombings partly funded by certain misguided US people of Irish descent.

Post-9/11 airport jokes?? THAT'S her routine? I'm sorry, but she doesn't have any new material? Christ, it's been eight friggin' years... time to buy a newspaper and get some contemporary jokes, Janeane! Politics just poisons creativity. I think her whole world has revolved around Bush-hatred for the last eight years, and now that he's gone, she has nothing to say (literally).

Your comments prove her point.

Thank you UK for doing what we would like to do here in the USA. I am so sick of how we are sooo hated here for just being born here. Oh and how 70% of us are racists for not kissing Obama's feet and wanting him to destroy our country. I hope you guys don't think we think it's ok to diss our allies like Obama has been doing since day one. Keep up the thorough reporting on him for us and pray we get through this.

Lotta morons in this thread.

Please could you keep her in the UK? She hates America anyway. We do have many more like her we could send you. Striesand, Bono, Madonna, Obama!

As a liberal American who enjoys comedy, I can't say that this is surprising. She's just not funny. It's not her politics, it's her jokes. There are right-wing comedians (Denis Miller) who also simply don't have the talent to continue a career built on a few fresh ideas two decades ago. So they fall back to politics and try to pretend like they're still humorous. And they're not. And we know this.

Oh how brave! It takes true bravery to speak out against the right and make a whole routine about how conservatives are Nazis! Such bravery! pppfftt! If she wants to show some guts and bravery, do a comedy routine about Muslims and their prophet. Better yet, she should do a routine about scientologists. Oh wait....

Damn, we were hoping you guys would love her across the pond, so we could get rid of her once and for all. The reality is the opposite of what she rants about - the media here is so liberal, that she has a regular forum on many talk shows, where she basically rants on in hate against anyone to the right of Chairman Mao, as the audience chuckles nervously, because in this day of PC, you're not allowed to disagree with the left. Thankfully you Brit's aren't falling for it.

What a strange bunch of visitors here. Can't help thinking some right-wing American site has put up a link so its regulars can come to Uncut and try and have an online gloat. Thanks! You should all know, though, that the Latitude audience is predominantly liberal; while I didn't see this Garofalo show, I'm pretty sure the crowd's indifference was not prompted by political indignation at the content of her routine.

She's appearing at the Edinburgh Festival this year. There's quite an interesting interview here - http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/18707-janeane-garofalo-makes-a-fringe-debut/

@ John Mulvey: Right-wingers do that. Looking at the grammer, I think it might actually be just one or two people posting as alts.

The Ip addresses and number of page views suggest otherwise, Johnny.

Point taken.

Hey Janeane......libtard media failed and still plunging....like the NYTimes/Newsweek.People want the truth about events...not some bleedingheart misinterpretation with extremely warped left bias!! That is why Fox,,O'Reilly Rush and Hannity have sky rocketing ratings and nobody wants to hear your blithering idiocy!!

Don, Maven, Keith: Coming on a board and saying people are morons does not make you a genius. Why don't you add something substantive to the thread instead of indulging your faux intellectual superiority? This "we're automatically the smartest people in the chat room" attitude because you read the joke of a newspaper NY Times, oThe Nation, or HuffPo doesn't cut it. As for Dennis Miller, Keith, maybe if you listened to his show you would 1) Know how to spell his name and 2) Would know that he is witty and funny. This animus abstentius, as Dennis calls it, is blatant on the Left for people they never listen to, especially Rush Limbaugh. If you would listen to Rush, for example, you would know that he criticizes big businesses that take bail-out money and the liberal big government agenda. Interesting, how would this make him a 'hack' for capitalism? Maybe the answer is that he supports FREEDOM and not FASCISM? Get a clue before you spout off about things you obviously have no clue about.

"Get a clue before you spout off about things you obviously have no clue about." And maybe the correspondents on the right in this thread should a) read my earlier post about why Garofalo was received apathetically (to reiterate: pretty sure it wasn't because the audience were a bunch of UK-dwelling Limbaugh fans); b) cut out the "libtard" namecalling themselves. This is potentially a really interesting debate, but if any more abuse gets thrown around I'm not going to approve posts. OK?

I LOVE READING THESE COMMENTS!! Janeanne can't disappear soon enough for my taste. As a Yankee, I resent her tone and content these past 8 years or so. I wonder if the silence of the Brits is indicative of a global cooling towards of anti-American mania. I know we ain't perfect, but are we really the Great Satan, even in the eyes of our democratic allies? Really? God bless America, and God save the Queen. -cj

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Why have so many idiots here decided this means that Britain is anti-Obama? They just didn't find her jokes funny, nothing to do with politics!

Janeane Garofalo is ONLY PUSS FROM A PIMPLE!!!

Just be thankful we didn't send Victoria Jackson.

Unlike the majority of people commenting here, I was actually at Latitude this weekend and saw all of Janeane's set. A couple of quick points. First, she left the stage because she just wasn't getting any laughs, not because a vicious right-wing phalanx in the front row was dishing out scorn and ridicule, as some have suggested (or hoped). As John Mulvey points out, the Latitude audience is mostly pretty liberal, and the indifference wasn't prompted by indignation at her politics. Quite the contrary; she drew a huge mid-afternoon crowd -- anecdotally speaking, many people were very keen to see her -- which thinned when people realised her set was poor. Second, her routine contained hardly any politics; rather, it was mainly observational humour about, inter alia, unattractive toenails, rubbing hand sanitiser onto your genitals, and the case for forensic investigation of 'cameltoe' on the TV programme CSI. Judge for yourself whether that sounds at all political, let alone 'liberal'. Part of the problem was that she seemed unprepared for the Latitude crowd. Never mind their political leaning: Latitude draws a pretty clued-up audience. Explaining to an audience of well-read, albeit cider-soaked Brits that the US now has a new president and asking whether we have CSI in the UK just isn't the best way to endear yourself. It's simple: the poor girl bombed, but now has a few weeks to do her homework ahead of her Edinburgh run.

It's sad when we in the US have to depend on the Brits for the truth about our own government.Keep up the good work.If we're lucky JG will get "whacked" in next years 24.

Ditto. Ditto. And.... Ditto.

Please don't let her leave the UK. She's far too talented for the states.

Can we all read Jasper's excellent post before posting any more uninformed vitriol, please?

Good thread, John. I have to make one observation. Ms. Garafalo is a nasty, angry person. When we had nation-wide "tea parties" she went on the equally nasty Keith Olbermann program and accused every attendee of being a "racist, straight up". In other words, she injected her own racist veiw into a debate on government spending. This woman really is the poster child for angry, bitter leftists.

"not because a vicious right-wing phalanx in the front row was dishing out scorn and ridicule".. Where are they when we need them? "This is latitude!".. Just doesn't sound the same as This is Sparta... Down the well she goes anyway. :)

I was also there at Latitude and am a bit bemused by some of the comments in this thread.The problem was her skills as a comedien. As Jasper said, most of the crowd at Latitude have "liberal"" views and understood her jokes, just didn't find her delivery of them very good. She could have turned it around but didn't even try. It had nothing to do with her politics. Please don't think that those of us who were there sympathise with any of rubbish on thes site like she should be "whacked" and the like "God bless America, God save the Queen" They would be the last words you would hear from most people in that audience!

Ditto on Jasper's point - I too was there, and it was the poor quality of her jokes and not her political leanings which failed her so miserably. I'd disagree with Wah!'s suggestion that British audiences are quieter; maybe sometimes yes, but in this case it was simply because the act wasn't particularly good. Which was disappointing - although I thoroughly enjoyed Ed Byrne's extra long set that resulted!

Please UK...keep her. We don't want her back.

I like Americans when they talk politics on the internet. They are silly. They make me smile. (rather less enamoured of the constant stream of CAPITALISED ad-hominem bile some people feel their freedom of speech clause entitles them to without risk of recourse, but I'll get over it). When will people learn that Europeans consider all Americans equally - we think you're all really, really right wing...

Deepest apologies to the folks in the UK for this waste of time "comic". Hopefully she didn't cause any permanent damage. At least she had the temporary flash of good sense to realize she was the problem and not her audience. Believe it or not, at one time she was minorly entertaining until she started drinking the left wing Kool-aid and got all "full of herself".

In response to Kermit, no, I don't think this is a good thread. To me, good threads are about discourse, evolving arguments and people listening and responding to each other's points. This thread seems to consist of one or two coherent explanations as to what happened at Latitude, and a lot of people ignoring those points and pursuing their own agendas against Janeane Garofalo.
Peter In NYC, you've overstepped the mark with your comment and I'm not going to approve it.

Well John, considering the subject matter I think you did pretty well. A post on who was a better leader, Stalin or Mao may have gotten more of an "evolving argument", but one takes what one can get. Not having attended Lattitude, and given my familiarity with the subject, I can only project my own repugnance and assume it was shared.

On behalf of all normal American I apologize for you having to put up with Ms. Garofalo. She's a classic spoiled brat grown up into a classic modern liberal, despising every opportunity she used to obatin success in her career. Sadly, there's a lot more just like her, and plenty even worse. We're sorry.

Mulberry Said; "When will people learn that Europeans consider all Americans equally - we think you're all really, really right wing..." I am amused that you speak for all of Europe when you claim 300 million people in America are right wing...astounding stupidity from the superior, enlightened left.

The Brits really are smarter than us generally. In particular, they demand more out of their entertainers than we do. They are also much more left than the U.S. in general, so you can't really write off the chilly reception to politics. One suspects that her malicious invective lacks the ooomph necessary to make it perform. Such stinging nastiness needs to reside under the protection of some greater, unifying truth, but she doesn't seem to be able to articulate one. She just comes across like a nasty party apparatchik - can you imagine what she'd be like if she had power? Probably alot like Hilary Clinton...

I call this performance a lefty two-fer, both performer and audience were too numbed and dumb to enjoy their little afternoon soree'. They deserve each other.

If all you Brits are wondering why so many Americans with conservative opinions are posting here and wrecking your own tea party, it is because they have linked to your discusssion throught Big Hollywood, a conservative entertainment and cultural response to the pervasive left-wing nature of the U.S. media and entertainment complex. As for Garofalo, she has not been very funny about anything for a long, long time. For the last 8 years, she has been part of the vast herd of Hollywood types who have desperately tried to conform to the 95% majority of those in real power in her industry by "speaking truth to power" in expressing various penumbra of their Bush Derangement Syndrome and American self-hatred. Some of our coastal liberal elites still find her vaguely amusing, but even they seem to have found little to laugh at; they would rather just find some other respite from the current disasters-in-the-making evolving from the Obama administration they so recently helped pay for.

They're not ignoring you, John Mulvey and others. They just don't read comments. I usually don't either. I hear you that Ms. Garofalo's set was not political but didn't get an enthusiastic response because it wasn't sharp enough or wasn't particularly clever/funny. She hasn't needed to hone these skills or her act, as her typical audience consists of people who are more like trained sea lions. They listen for cues and thus know when to applaud. They talk like trained parrots as well. Pull any one of them from the audience and you can get a uniform response to any topic you introduce. I guarantee it. This may explain why she hasn't felt the need to develop new material. It would only confuse her U.S. audiences.

To our visiting frinds from across the pond: the story here is that Janeane Garofalo told some lame jokes about CSI and body parts to a thousand people in a tent in Suffolk, patronised the audience when they didn't laugh, then walked off. For all of you to somehow derive from this that the UK as a whole is launching some sort of mass protest against the tyrany of the Obama regime demonstrates why Republican supporters are often stereotyped as ignorant morons - you make it so damn easy!

Oh yes, she is Far too talented to come back here. Please keep her there, with Madonna. The two of them can become "English" together. I honestly have a hard time deciding who is funnier anyway, Madonna or Janine. The movie Mystery Men, where she kept he Fathers skull in he bowling ball was pretty good, but nothing before or since. I can't wait to see what her skull looks like in a Bowling Ball when her time comes. Finally she may get the recognition she actually deserves.

I can't believe there are so many people that are so unintelligent that they don't get comedy. No wonder this world is so screwed up. Most of you commenters will never get comedy or Janeanne. Hell, most of you don't even know how to spell. If you spent as much time trying to help solve this world's problems as you do dissing her,you might actually become a human being. Grow up! She's trying to help you.

I just want to say that this thread has made Janeane Gorofolo more interesting and it seems that she is must be quite a provocative entertainer. It's a pity she wasn't on good form at Latitude. I feel sorry that she didn't continue her set as it could have been ok. Just to reitierate, Latitude is now known for being a quality comedy,arts and music festival and we in the audience are used to seeing some very good political satire which is mostly left leaning. Janeane's set on the day just wasn't as good as the others who were there and wasn't actually about politics! She also didn't stay on long enough to try to win the crowd over, as far as I know, no-one actually truly hated her set, it seemed, not like that poor Dutch guy from last year! I don't understand why she gave up so soon. But I'm now going to buy her DVD and find out what she is all about!

Hmmm, this thread has mutated from why Garofalo's act bombed (bad jokes) to how Brits are smarter and more sophisticated than Yanks. I didn't hear any of Garofalo's material at Latitude but if it was similar to her usual tripe no wonder you brilliant, sophisticated Brits were unamused. Which makes me think of all the reasons Brits are smarter and more sophisticated than Yanks: #1: You don't think Garofalo is funny; #2: You intentionally let the colonies win the American Revolution and create the most powerful nation on earth; #3: You allowed us to help rescue Europe in two world wars; #4: You declined from a global empire to a small island with a faux monarchy augmented by a ferociously comical parliament; #5: In your country, a queen is really a woman with a crown #6: All of your best bands get rich on Yankee fans; #7: You drink tea with biscuits; #8: Your poor health care system is now a model to replace our currently superior one; #9: You talk prettier than we do; #10: You have such great cuisine, especially Shephard's Pie Thanks for all the great opportunities you've given us Yanks, and please keep Garofalo "over there."

Thank you Tom Paine for your succinct and profound observations…couldn't agree with you more.

I was in the audience at Latitude, and I can tell you why she bombed: she didn't do her homework. She started with a load of gags about CSI, and one actor in the show in particular. Well, CSI is shown here, but it's not that big, and I doubt that even people who watch it could name a cast member. So those references fell flat. She followed that with a few gags about "The Rapture". Well, the rapture is simply not a story here. I doubt that even people who go to church here have even heard of the rapture. So that fell flat. The Latitude audience is probably the most liberal and leftie crowd on earth. Jeananne's problem wasn't her politics. It was her laziness in not making some changes to her act to take into account that some of her material would have no relevance to a British crowd.

In response to Tom Paine's post,I don't think there are any posts in here from British people claiming to be superior or smarter than people from the US. However you are right when you say that USA is the most powerful nation in the world and so in that case, some aspects of it should be allowed to be challenged. The US prides itself on free speech and people should be allowed to express their opinions. It seems that the "conservatives" perceive any challenge to their ideology to be "anti-American" and that is just not true. Also as a nurse working in our "poor healthcare system"-God help you if you get free and equal access to healthcare!

I was there, with an american. We both thought she just wasn't funny - end of - it happens sometimes. No political agenda on anyone's part. To be fair this thread is actually funnier, much, much, funnier. So, Tom Paine I salute you for you fierce insight into the 'special relationship' that our two countries share. SGM: Let's do a high five there! Frog: Sorry, she just wasn't funny, she did help me by leaving the stage and allowing Ed Byrne on. WestWright - No, she just wasn't funny she didn't have time not to be left wing. Jasper - Spot on. Everyone else just bore off back to your own boards please. We like talking about music and stuff here not your weird domestic politics. As you were.

Funny how she makes fun of Sarah Palin quiting? Didn't Garafalo quit Air America?

I'm not surprised Garofalo bombed as she has never been a particularly funny comedian, unless she is working from a more talented writer's material al a Jon Stewart or Ben Stiller. Her own material seems frozen in time as if she stopped progressing past the point of being a disaffected teenager. But, that's neither here nor there. I'm an American and I just wanted to pop in and say, "Sorry, for all of the tumult my countrymen have caused your Web site!" We can sometimes be overly heavy handed when it comes to our politics and Garofalo has made a lot of political enemies who are always poised to jump on her. To a degree, that animosity is well deserved as her idea of political discourse to heap vituperation upon the heads of those she disagrees and although I do believe her to be an intelligent woman however she always falls back to invective smears. Judging by what the people who actually attended the show have said it really is no wonder she bolted off the stage. So, yes, to all of my fellow countrymen: the Brits didn't force her off the stage for her politics, rather it's quite clear that she ran from the scene after proceeding with what appears to have been an American-centric set for a British audience. Just clueless.

She Came on and talked about guys wearing flip flops who have long toenails and then asked how come the doctor from doctor who comes back as a different person. This was not a joke or a witty play on a response from the crowd, she was just curious. This was terrible comedy. like many have said we got her jokes if you would call them that? they just were not funny at all. Well done to Ed Byrne for stepping in for longer tho - he was awesome

Thanks to all of you who've come here and rescued this thread. As one or two other people have mentioned, I think it's going to be really interesting to see whether Garofalo makes the content of her routine more site-specific when she gets to Edinburgh next month. Maybe she should do a routine about this thread, actually: I suspect ridiculing her right-wing enemies would go down a lot better than CSI gags...

Personally, this Yank doesn't care why she bombed in front of UK audience, even a liberal one. The point is, JG bombed and skedaddled early from the stage. So it's all good. Now only if you could keep her. I mean, you took Madonna in, so have a heart and do America a solid.

frog says Janeane's just trying to help us...then offers absolutely nothing relevent to the discussion. Thanks for the "enlightenment."

There is a funny skit about janeane garofalo on PJTV with AlfonZo and Sharise Parviz from Restrained no more. Funny stuff and Janeane gets what she deserves

I don't get all this America v's Uk crap. Unless you actually contributed, beyond just being a citizen, to the political process, or to health care, or any of your countries services, you don't get to be so proud of your country (it's not even pride in a country, it's pride in its systems and government). All most people do is choose to live there (some don't even do that). So well done, you like where you live! Whoop-de-do. YOU DIDN'T CREATE IT, it was there all along. You can comment, but not claim any superior ground, you're a citizen of the WORLD, a human being. Grow up. Nationalism should be relegated to the past. Be proud of what YOU have contributed, today, not what thousands of others have been doing for hundreds of years. And who CARES that she bombed, or didn't do a good job. I'm sure everyone's screwed up at work at least once! Be glad no-one cares enough about you to post a thread dedicated to the few mistakes you've made. Sheesh. As for the uk's healthcare system, I'd be happy to know that no-one would be checking my pockets in an emergency before they treat me... doesn't mean it's better, just means it's different.

It was certainly a very liberal crowd, it was nothing to do with her political stance that made her unpopular. I'd never heard of her before and from her 7 minutes on stage never would have guessed she was a liberal activist or even a very intellegent human being. Her performance was so lazy - half-constructed observations about Dr Who and flip flops ffs. It was like she was hungover and really didn't wanna be on stage or something, and then ran away. At best she was unprofessional, but there's no need for some of the venom here, surely! We got to see more of Ed Byrne! That was marvellous. I can understand why her being so overrated might be irritating... but there's no need to denounce liberalism. It's a good thing. You're only who you are/the way you are/where you are/the race/gender you are by chance and what the poster said above is true too. She was just shit at comedy. Nuff said?

JUST DON'T FORGET ENGLAND... The USA gave you BILL HICKS, and George Carlin - these two late comedians used political humor to great effect by exposing the hypocrisy of BOTH parties! Barfalo is NOT funny, and swirls around the US propaganda machine like she invented it. Oh, for those of you who didn't laugh on command... you are a bunch of "Tea - Bagging" Racists. lol...

This Pajama TV skit summarizes Garofalo perfectly: http://tinyurl.com/nj5ef5 Hee-Haw! Janeane, parodies of you are funnier than you are. Your shtick is shtuck in drollsville.

she is not over-rated she has no rating at her very best she is ANNOYING BORING IRRITATING TROUBLED CLASS-LESS HOMELY

I feel very bad about this. Poor Janeane went all the way to the UK to flop. She has been stymied without George Bush to bitch about. Can't possibly find anything funny about Messiha Obama. And what's up with that hair, girlfriend?

Hey Rob, you can't enlighten a closed mind. Sorry if you need relevence. It's great that Janeane brings out so many close-minded people(mostly guys) to show their ignorance.She's absolutely hot, there's your relevence.

I was there and was left bemused by the whole thing. i don't think she was terrible by any means. she actually claimed that she was used to going out into the crowd and getting more interaction - i get the feeling that was how she planned to stretch out the act. i just don't think she realised she'd be on a stage behind a metal barrier. very unprofessional. disappointing.

Janeane Rocks!!!!!!!!!! Everyone has bad days

Wow, ten minutes at Latitude has caused quite a stir, this is all actually very funny.

Was anyone able to film the set? I'd love to see it for myself. That way I can comment more effectively. :)

Some part, at least, of her set has been broadcast as part of Radio 4's coverage of Latitude's comedy output, 4 In A Field. You can hear it for yourself on the BBC's Listen Again facility on their website. Her set kicks in at 18 mins .04 secs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00lpc8h/4_in_a_Field/ Cheers.

janeane is brilliant and hilarious. she simply bombed, as comics do. It's unbelievable how blown out of proportion all of this is. And anyone who saw the performance knows that she handled the situation very well.

Left, or Right, the distinction is irrelevant. The important lesson we should all learn from this thread is that Americans are all annoying.

I was there at Latitude watching her and I think there were a couple of mistakes she made. The first was expecting a British audience to whoop and punch the air after every other word; I've been to comedy clubs in America and the comics who do play well to both audiences (I saw Greg Proops in SF and in London) understand that Brits only laugh or cheer after the punchline, not as a general indication that they like what you're saying.# The other thing she did wrong was to get mixed up, I think - the act that she did was the same as she'd done earlier that day for a radio recording, but she had a five minute slot for the radio and had half an hour on the comedy stage. I think she'd only prepared a five minute act and let herself get thrown. From where I sat (outside the tent, watching in the sunshine on the big screen) she was getting some laughs - not uproarious belly laughs, but polite laughter all the same. I don't think the audience was at all hostile - she wasn't clapped off or anything. The only thing that was really disappointing is that, as soon as she realise she didn't have enough material for the full set, she started apologising and saying that it wasn't working. I think she decided to walk off almost as soon as she got started, which can't have had anything much to do with the audience reception. Her 'people' apparently said she felt drowned out by music from the main stage next door, but that affected every comic for the whole festival so that seems like an excuse, not a reason. I just think she didn't prepare well enough, and/or had jet-lag, maybe? I wish her well in Edinburgh; she's smart enough to learn from her mistake.

jimmy neutron: too bad YOU didn't leave 1/4 of the way into your post. Brilliant and hilarious? OMG, you're as deranged and delusional as JG.