{"id":22060,"date":"2020-07-20T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/?p=22060"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:44:24","slug":"last-nights-mockdown-chat-show-comedy-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/20\/last-nights-mockdown-chat-show-comedy-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Last night&#8217;s MOCKDOWN! Chat Show, Comedy Special!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Darlings!!!<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed Episode 5 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCrKY2R9L3c4Fp4RKxN3x54fcP_FPL5Pk\"><strong>MOCKDOWN!<\/strong><\/a> last night&#8230; This week &#8211; <strong>A Comedy Special! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was joined by three special guests to chat about the world of live comedy during these strange times&#8230; Will we still be laughing after the Covid Crisis?<\/p>\n<p>My Guests this week&#8230; <strong>Paul BALLO Ballington<\/strong>, <strong>Big Shaun<\/strong> and <strong>Adam Rushton<\/strong> <a href=\"#guests197\">(info on my\u00a0guests below the video link&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QRVn2bH6G2E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a id=\"guests197\"><\/a>ABOUT MY GUESTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PAUL BALLO BALLINGTON<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The singing plumber&#8221; from Dinnington, Sheffield. Specialising in Comedy songwriting. The two things I love the most in life (apart from family, Football &amp; beer) are music and making people laugh. So, I thought, why not try and combine the two &#8211; so I did!! It all began in 2012 when I wrote a song called &#8220;Ten Pints of Carling&#8221; which took off way more than I expected. Since then I have written many more similar songs that many people can relate to. Numerous national and local TV &amp; Radio performances &#8211; invited to perform Yorkshire themed &#8220;Tour de Yorkshire&#8221; song &#8220;Get on yer bike&#8221; at the opening ceremony in York. Written songs for charity &#8211; including raising over \u00a3800 for PACT &amp; Bluebell Wood with a Christmas song, which also featured on local and national radio. Also write and record songs for special occasions &#8211; resulted in writing bespoke birthday songs &#8211; and also writing and performing a best man speech, bride speech and Father of the bride speech!! \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/paulballo1977\">Ballo Facebook Page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SHAUN DAVID DOANE &#8211; BIG SHAUN<\/strong> has been singing in Sheffield bands for 30 years, including Ravager, 2 til 10, Sharp Cuts, Sikorski, The Koenig, Go Galleon, Tiny Barbara&#8217;s Surf Club and of course the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/everlypregnantbrothers.co.uk\">Everly Pregnant Brothers<\/a><\/strong>. A funny man whose talent also embraces DJing, compering and comedy, Shaun is very Yorkshire, very Sheffield, and very gobshite!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM RUSHTON<\/strong> is a promoter and comedy agent. Having previously spent five years in the Royal Navy, Adam started his journey in comedy on the stage before hanging up his mic four years ago and forming A Rush Of Laughter Management. His roster boast acts such as Tanyalee Davis, Gareth Richards, Njambi McGrath &amp; Ignacio Lopez<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arushoflaughter.co.uk\"><strong>Web Site<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdRushton\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>SUPPORT ARTISTS&#8230; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equity.org.uk\/about\/benevolent-fund\/\">Equity Benevolent Fund<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>You can donate to me here &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davemcclelland\">Ko-Fi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Darlings!!! I really enjoyed Episode 5 of MOCKDOWN! last night&#8230; This week &#8211; A Comedy Special! I was joined by three special guests to chat about the world of live comedy during these strange times&#8230; Will we still be laughing after the Covid Crisis? My Guests this week&#8230; Paul BALLO Ballington, Big Shaun and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/20\/last-nights-mockdown-chat-show-comedy-special\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last night&#8217;s MOCKDOWN! Chat Show, Comedy Special!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Last night's MOCKDOWN! #Chatshow #Comedy Special!\r\nChat about #livecomedy during these strange times - Will we still be laughing after #Covid?\u00a0\r\nGuests Paul BALLO Ballington, Big Shaun and Adam @AdRushton","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,41,140,63,84,196,64,141,104,189,54,188],"tags":[42,248,85,243,199,245,53,67,247,114,244,246,49],"class_list":["post-22060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acting","category-actor","category-bbc","category-celebrity","category-comedy","category-covid-19","category-humour","category-liverpool","category-sheffield","category-stage","category-summer","category-theatre","tag-actor-2","tag-bgt","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-clubs","tag-covid-19","tag-everly-pregnant-brothers","tag-fans","tag-humour","tag-picturedrome","tag-politics","tag-stand-up","tag-tramlines","tag-yorkshire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Mockdown-19-July-2020-3.jpeg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VL6J-5JO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22076,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22060\/revisions\/22076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}