Daytime gigs where parents can bring their infants without fear of judgment are proving a sellout success
When Nick Page saw the exhaustion of the new mothers arriving at his comedy gig, he suggested turning the hour-long set into a sleepover. He had been joking – but the women enthusiastically agreed.
In any other room, a comedian asking the audience to fall asleep would have been career ruining. In the world of baby-friendly comedy clubs, however, it was a masterstroke.
“We all just had a little nap together,” Page said. Afterwards, the four comics on the bill scribbled jokes on scraps of paper and handed them out “so the mums could memorise them and pretend to their friends they had actually been to a comedy set”.
The ruse wasn’t the only success; Page later found the mums had taken it to the next level, posting five-star reviews online, declaring it the best show they had ever been to.
