Comedy review: Anthology (Volume 6)

ANDREW J Lederer, a man with both passion and talent for comedy, opens with a bravura display of warm-up skills. Having ascertained that only five people here have come specifically to see the show, he has an uphill task but, ten minutes into some gloriously downbeat improvising, even the lippy chip-eaters at the back have shut up.

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The premise of the show is that each day you get different comics telling you anecdotes from their lives – “just a true story,” says Lederer, “not run through the grinder and turned into comedy sausage”.

Which is not to say the stories aren’t funny. Richard Sandling, telling a tale of sci-fi-based disaster, can’t not be funny, and Rob Heaney’s story of his time as a taxi driver on the Isle of Man is hilarious. You also get the added fun of getting to know these guys just a tiny bit better.

Lederer’s own agonising tale of attempting to save Tiny Toons from Steven Spielberg is riveting, funny and awful. The entire room echoes with a miscellany of noises that all translated as “oh no” at the end. Do go. But don’t take chips.

Until 30 August. Today 4:30pm.