Peter Kay: Live at the Top of the Tower

This video is for everyone!!! It is just so funny from the very start! Peter Kay talks about holidays like when you ring home you always ask what is the wheather like at home! He also talks about school dinnerladies! School trips and also booking a hoilday on cefax!! 10/10 Excellent

Filmed in front of a very small audience at the top of Blackpool Tower, Peter Kay makes his stand-up debut in style. Compared to his later shows, this one isn't as funny, it has a different feel to it and Peter Kay doesn't deliver as strongly as his later tours. This isn't a criticism of Top of the Tower but more of a compliment to how well he progressed and improved over the years. It is very common for comedians to start strong and slowly get worse over time, in my opinion; Peter Kay is an exception to this. Many of his well-known jokes are told here, 'Its spitting', 'Garlic Bread', 'Rola Cola' and many more are all on this.

Although over done over the years it still gets laughs from me every time I watch it. Peter Kay has the ability to come across charming and a very likable person, from a working class background telling jokes which almost every person watching can relate to.

Peter Kay has gone on to be incredibly successful, this is where his stand up days all began and seeing him looking so young really makes me feel old!

8/10

Peter Kay delivers experience from his life in this excellent stand-up routine, performed at Blackpool's Tower. His comedy style is experience from his life, which most people living in England can identify with.... i know i do! Everything from making rose perfume to booking holidays off teletext make for 90 minutes of non-stop laughs!! I hope he decides to make more stand up Videos/DVD's, but i hope there are different jokes in the next video, unlike other comedians (e.g. Lee Evans) who continue their jokes into each video they make! Well i've got to get going, so in the words of Peter Kay... Packed It, Booked It, F**ked Off!!

With his own unique humour Peter Kay performs in front of hundreds of his Northern brethren from the top of the Blackpool Tower. Drawing on his own childhood, Kay covers family holidays, ceefax, fathers, dinner ladies, the weather and so on. Despite this video coming out first, I had already seen him at the Bolton Albert Halls before I saw this video and I wasn't too impressed with that. However, I'm not sure why but I enjoyed this show a lot more.

Maybe because it is a longer show with a better mix of humour but it is better than his purely observational humour of the other show. Here he draws heavily on real life but he also does it with a real humour and energy that makes it stand out from the loads of comics who do the "isn't it funny when…" stuff. I'm not sure how well it will travel because it is not only very English but it is specifically very Northern observations that those not knowing people similar to his family and friends. However even without this knowledge the show is still funny because he has such energy and his delivery is much better than in the later video from Bolton.

Overall it helps if you can relate to the material but even without this you can still enjoy the fast paced and energetic delivery from Kay. An enjoyable show with plenty of good observation mixed with imaginative writing will produce enough laughs to justify watching this show.

This is OFFICIALLY the best stand up comedian on the face of the planet. No, honestly, he is!!!!

Live at the top of the tower is quite simply the funniest thing you can see on a screen. Having seen him last night on his current Mum Needs A Bungalow tour, I cannot wait for more Peter Kay Live DVDs coming out.

Put simply, buy this video, then go see him live! But be warned, you might wet your pants laughing!