Peter Kay: Live at the Top of the Tower

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 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

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!!

Peter Kay: Live from the Top of the Tower is possibly the greatest stand up show ever. Peter Kay's observational humour is so spot on that your sides will hurt from laughing. Everything from dinner ladies that can smell rain, thus preventing the children from playing out, to finding a holiday on teletext (368 pages to go through until your page comes back around). The stories usually focus around Kay's childhood, growing up in Bolton in the 1980's. His mother, who cleans the house BEFORE going on holiday to the father who won't touch foreign foods when abroad ('Garlic...And bread? Garlic bread?'). Peter Kay explains exactly why people talk with their hands, even the old woman who complains about the heat is there, 'I like it hot but not this hot'.

The characters are familiar to everyone and that's what makes the stand up show so special. We've all met the people Kay talks about. What Peter Kay has done here is present life as we know it, but in such a way that you'll no doubt be crying with laughter with the jokes and characters featured in the show. This show is absolutely spectactular that I would reccomend it to everyone. It is funny without being rude or offensive and that's something which isn't very common in the wacky world of MTV. And remember, as the dinner lady always says; 'It's the fine rain that gets you wet.'

Peter Kay is Britains most up and coming comic and Live from the Top Of The Tower just proves it. He is well known in Britain for his fantastic Phoenix Nights and John Smiths adverts and this is the first time i have seen him in stand up. In the show he starts of telling jokes which spoils his act a little and the rest of the show he is brilliant with his observational comedy that Eddie Izzard or Billy Connolly would be proud of. He apeals to all ages and is not blue like some comics although a couple of gags were a bit risky. This man is going places. 8 out of 10.