Summer Banks
archillesDave Spikey
December 20th 2007 17:49
I feel a bit sorry for Dave Spikey.
He is the poor man's Peter Kay. A lot of their material overlaps in style and content and those I was with seemed to presume this was Spikey being influenced by/stealing from Kay. I would argue that they share a sense of humour... considering that neither of them say anything that controversial it is hardly surprising there is some overlap. Of course Dave Spikey is going to make some similar jokes - aren't weddings funny? Aren't teenagers grumpy? Haven't we all had similar holiday experiences?
I'll be honest, I've heard it all before from a million comics. And I wasn't surprised. Going to see Dave Spikey I had a feeling I would be in for some trite observations. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate this kind of comedy. I'm just not a massive fan. It lacks originality and I sort of sit there thinking "well, I could probably do that" whereas I prefer to be in awe. The problem is I do find Peter Kay quite funny... but as Peter Kay. It's his manner (i.e. accent) that makes me crack a smile and I don't think Dave Spikey has this innately funny persona. So when similarly inane gags are made it doesn't engage me in the same way.
Having said that, I do feel for Spikey who will forever live in Kay's shadow - especially as Kay has only released a limited amount of material (time and time and time again but that is another money grabbing issue entirely *ahem*) which means people can reference it fairly quickly. I think Spikey is destined to be Kay's bitch.
The only thing I would say is the end of Spikey's routine in which he attacks nonsensical song lyrics at least showed a bit of effort. And as he played them you couldn't help but laugh at some - especially the really famous song which you have heard a thousand times and probably never noticed the crap rhymes. Well, you probably have. But it was still better than the usual stuff!!
They both regurgitate equally hackneyed and overdone routines so let's not lay blame on either one of them. To be honest, neither of them invented any of it so, in the words of Kay, "shut up and have a solero".
Yes. Let's all have a solero.
He is the poor man's Peter Kay. A lot of their material overlaps in style and content and those I was with seemed to presume this was Spikey being influenced by/stealing from Kay. I would argue that they share a sense of humour... considering that neither of them say anything that controversial it is hardly surprising there is some overlap. Of course Dave Spikey is going to make some similar jokes - aren't weddings funny? Aren't teenagers grumpy? Haven't we all had similar holiday experiences?
I'll be honest, I've heard it all before from a million comics. And I wasn't surprised. Going to see Dave Spikey I had a feeling I would be in for some trite observations. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate this kind of comedy. I'm just not a massive fan. It lacks originality and I sort of sit there thinking "well, I could probably do that" whereas I prefer to be in awe. The problem is I do find Peter Kay quite funny... but as Peter Kay. It's his manner (i.e. accent) that makes me crack a smile and I don't think Dave Spikey has this innately funny persona. So when similarly inane gags are made it doesn't engage me in the same way.
Having said that, I do feel for Spikey who will forever live in Kay's shadow - especially as Kay has only released a limited amount of material (time and time and time again but that is another money grabbing issue entirely *ahem*) which means people can reference it fairly quickly. I think Spikey is destined to be Kay's bitch.
The only thing I would say is the end of Spikey's routine in which he attacks nonsensical song lyrics at least showed a bit of effort. And as he played them you couldn't help but laugh at some - especially the really famous song which you have heard a thousand times and probably never noticed the crap rhymes. Well, you probably have. But it was still better than the usual stuff!!
They both regurgitate equally hackneyed and overdone routines so let's not lay blame on either one of them. To be honest, neither of them invented any of it so, in the words of Kay, "shut up and have a solero".
Yes. Let's all have a solero.
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