Susan Murray/The Stand Comedy Club
The Stand Comedy Club III & IV

if you know your glottal stops from your epiglottis then you’ll love this show. if you don’t, you’ll love it just the same.

for her fringe debut susan murray has decided to eschew writing gags for a themed show on accents and the weird and wonderful way they shape our lives.

sure there’s a bit of linguistics, but that’s just an excuse to fill the rest of this ripping show with a wry look at life (particularly murray’s), the universe and everything.

after all, everyone has an accent don’t they, murray points out. indeed some of us even lose them or change them, as brutal video clips of the queen (lost) and margaret thatcher (changed) attest.

she works her way through old favourites like scouse, ulster and rp (“really posh”), gauging the pros and cons on the national ratings scale. and though murray bemoans it, we’re lucky that her family situation meant that she is now fluent in the two worst offenders: black country (as in “kipper tie”) and glaswegian (“see you jimmy” obviously).
routines include her scottish mum asking for turnips in wolverhampton, a momentary rip into cheryl cole and a clinic for stds (sexually transmitted dialects).

murray works the packed audience with skill – there is the added pleasure of realising that asking where people come from is linguistic fieldwork – and conducts us through elocution lessons of how to say hello in geordie.
in the process she shows how accents still play a big part in our supposedly classless and regionless society. oh, and in the process she gets us to laugh long and loud both at them and ourselves.

review by nick awde
published online at 10:58 on monday 23 august 2010

BSH Magazine and Open House Magazine

i do a lot of biker festivals for the national association of disabled bikers http://www.nabd.org.uk/ and have done for years. they are enormous fun, here are some quotes from various biker publications.

"...featuring amongst the other achingly funny acts, susan 'don't rush me, i've got nine points' murray, her lengthy list of awards trailing in her wake." - louise limb, bsh magazine.
"next up was susan murray, who rick hulse quite rightly introduced as; 'the most shaggable comedian in britain". - whiskey bob, 100% biker magazine.

and here's one from last year's autumn nabd'ness rally in oxfordshire.
"next up was “susan murray”, a rather ‘easy on the eye’ lady from the midlands who had the whole crowd in the palm of her hand as she told us of her experiences going out with a fairground gypsy interspersed with some very biting commentary on relationships in general." - rocky resin, bsh magazine and open house magazine.

Susan Murray: The Glottal Stops Here

the stand comedy club ii 4–29 aug, not 5, 16, times vary
susan murray is delightful from start to finish in this well-thought out hour taking on the topic of accents: their evolution; their assumptions; their sheer hilarity. though it is initially slightly tiresome that murray laughs a tad to much at her own jokes, it soon becomes unavoidably infectious.
not only is the material uniquely witty and insightful, but murray’s delivery is infallibly on the pulse. sensing when a joke isn't well received, murray skilfully swings in another direction, or throws an alternative punchline, keeping the audience enrapt and engaged throughout

The Milk Bar End of 2010 Quiz - Episode 81

2 Teams of contestants join us at Molineux to battle it out to win a half price, Santa embossed, Kit Kat and more importantly the pride of knowing they were paying attention to 2010 as it flew by at a frightening pace.

'leicester mercury' thursday february 25th 2007

“unsuccessful search for a boyfriend”

susan murray
halli vegetarian restaurant
review by emma hardwick

i had a discussion in the pub the other night about whether women could be funny or not. i maintained a lot of my female friends were indeed hilarious (often unintentionally so) and women were just as funny as men.

of course we said dawn french first, but then there was the sound of barrels being scraped as someone feebly mentioned jennifer saunders and jo brand. no-one dared pipe up with jenny éclair.

i wanted the answer to be yes, but the crux of the argument came when we tried to name funny famous women.

maybe the funny women just aren’t up on stages performing, although there was one out in public last night.

susan murray was great. her show centred around herself and her unsuccessful search for a boyfriend.

that’s dangerous territory and could have resulted in an evening about how rubbish men are and how rubbish men are and – you get the idea.

but instead of this we had a multi-media show with web pages, answerphone messages and anecdotes about the perils of singledom and searching for a date.

the funny stories and the sheer likableness of susan make the show work.

it was like being let in on a chat with a mate about their dating disasters and having a good chuckle about he freaks she met along the way.