Thursday 29^th June 2006 saw Bruce Devlin compering a line up of; John Ross, Scott Agnew, John Henderson and headline act Reginald D. Hunter.

Although Bruce is new to Geoff and myself he is a regular compere at the Stand and runs his own weekly show ‘The Sunday Laugh – In’. He has appeared regularly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and will be Presenting a Monday to Friday midday show at the Stand ‘Devlin’s Daily’ This free show has an impressive proposed list of guests, check out the Stand’s website for further information.  www.thestand.co.uk

First up was John Ross who has worked with the popular Improve Troupe ‘Dance Monkey Boy, Dance!’ I saw him in “Stand-Up: The Musical” in 2003. His descriptions of playing Ned Scrabble, Ned Ludo and Ned Monopoly were both topical and intriguing, whilst the games you play within your own family, where you stay seated as long as possible so as not to have to do anything, like 'go for the messages' roughly translated from the scots to go shopping, or get some tea are both observational and funny.

Scott Agnew declares his persuasion on arriving on the stage and continued to go on about being gay for his whole set.

John Henderson for me was a breath of fresh air. Although it seemed to take him a little time to settle into his stride. As soon as he got there he just sailed away with the audience in tow. Despite having worked with fellow Irishman Jason Byrne, his delivery is so laid back he was almost horizontal. His thing seems to be views on complaining and about how lazy we can be with convenience items simply encouraging further laziness.

Following John I thought Reginald D. Hunter might have his work cut out for him but how wrong was I!!  His 2006 Fringe show is entitled ‘Pride and Prejudice and Niggas’ and he used his time at the Stand to give us a small taster of what might be!!  He did say his set isn’t finalised yet but I certainly had a good giggle at the material used on the night. That is before I noticed and became somewhat obsessed by his hands?  Despite being of a reasonable size they are so well defined and beautifully proportioned I had difficulty keeping my eyes off them and much to Reginald’s surprise asked to examine them after the show.  He is one comedian to whom I would have no difficulty in saying that for a great evenings comic entertainment I'd fully trust being left in his hands.