Blog’s Comedy Comments Go National

A newspaper’s blog has made the nationals after disgruntled fans used its comment section to air their views about a Steve Coogan gig.

Over 50 comments have so far been added to a blog entry on liverpooldailypost.co.uk containing a less than favourable review of the northern comedian’s recent show in the city.

Many of these have come from people who attended the stand-up show and their opinions (the negative ones at least) have been picked up by several national news websites.

The blog post’s author, Vicky Anderson, said: “If it was the simple matter of one bad review in a regional paper then the nationals wouldn’t have given a toss.

“What grabbed their attention were the comments - bloody loads of them - from scores of unhappy people who had seen the show for themselves and wanted to give their two cents.”

The Independent and the Mail Online both ran the story, including actual quotes from the posters, while ITN also had a small piece about the online responses.

Writing on the Comedy Blog, Anderson notes that the sheer number of comments came as something of a surprise to the Daily Post.

“I was imagining maybe three or four comments if I was lucky, but the response just went through the roof.

“What’s more, despite the sheer disappointment from people, the majority are unbiased, eloquent, and hilarious.”