A festive night of wit as Pedants Revolt Christmas Special goes live in London
Pedants of London, rejoice. The long-suffering guardians of grammar, nuance and rogue apostrophes are finally getting their night out. This December, the gloriously eccentric Pedants Revolt Christmas Special is being recorded live at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green, which may be the first time in recorded history that pedantry and the Central Line have peacefully co-existed.
The show began as a six-part radio comedy dreamed up by Tania Edwards, Bob Moran and Tom Moran Snr, who clearly decided the only reasonable response to modern life was to poke it with sharply worded jokes. Online listeners have warmed to the series for its quick wit, wild logic and its affectionate teasing of anyone who ever muttered “that’s not what that word means”.
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For the Christmas Special, the cast are stepping away from the studio and into the lights, offering a night of music, festive nonsense and linguistic mischief. Chelsea regulars Nicholas Lord Monson and Grahame McGirr are making cameo appearances, adding a slice of West London theatre to an East London comedy bunker.
One of the creators told EyeOnLondon they wanted to “let the mayhem breathe a little”, describing the live version as “a celebration of joyful nonsense, Christmas chaos and people who take punctuation far too seriously”..
Anyone wishing to join the revelry, correct a semicolon in public or simply watch a group of performers go to battle with the English language can secure a place through the Backyard Comedy Club website.
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