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Mediocre material and rather uneasy delivery

23 Aug 2010

You want to like him, you really do. And in another context maybe this gentle show about Dowdeswell’s discovery that his great-grandfather worked with Charlie Chaplin would pass muster. Alas, his mediocre material and rather uneasy delivery are roundly…

James Dowdeswell

James Dowdeswell's My Grandad was a Clown and Those are Big Shoes to Fill

Board Meeting: James Dowdeswell

7 Aug 2010

James Dowdeswell discovered that his great grandfather was a clown and comic actor who had worked with Charlie Chaplin? How does an up-and-coming comedian compete with that? By looking a bit homeless on the street outside his venue with a whiteboard and…

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5 Feb 2009

Name: James Dowdeswell Who’s he then? This West Country lad has been on the gigging circuit since the turn of the century, and has a few Fringe shows under his belt, including the critically quaffed Wine from 2007 in which he threw a banana skin…

James Dowdeswell

21 Aug 2008

A perfectly likeable chap with a decent story to tell about his experience of being at a school which had a near-Columbine incident and its strange aftermath, this is an hour about how it's tough being nice. Perhaps it is simply easier to find and write…

James Dowdeswell

James Dowdeswell

13 Dec 2007

Whether this country lad will be giving his fuelled Jongleurs audience a taste of his wine-based humour is as yet unclear. If he does, the gathered will be entertained by tales of being brought up as a publican’s son and sampling the humble grape under…

James Dowdeswell

16 Aug 2007

Dowdeswell attempts to rescue the ‘intimidating’ world of wine-fancying from the clutches of adjective-abusing snobs. Taking a trip down memory lane, he moves from his alcoholic initiations as a publican’s son, to the wine-sampling efforts of a young…

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