"Do topical analgesics help heal the injury or get an athlete back to activity any quicker?" he asked.
The bill mixes big names and newcomers, giving them a chance to do topical material that might not fit into their own show.
If anyone is going to come up with a fresh way of doing topical comedy, it may very well be ex-Cambridge trio Sheeps.
He does engage with the news though, wants to know what's going on and will do topical stuff, but he'll just do it in his own way.
Comedy Pub, SW1, Sun; Komedia, Brighton, Thu; Jongleurs, NW1, Fri; Comedy Pub, SW1, Fri When Nick Revell started doing topical stand-up, the Conservatives were rolling back the welfare state and Labour were agonising over whether to shift left or not.
"Moonshine," a play inspired by the hoax, was performed mere weeks after the articles appeared, at the renowned, newly rebuilt Bowery Theatre, a venue known for doing topical plays and satires.
Now he does topical riffs on the way humans deal with one another, how technology enabled Ansari's generation "to be the rudest, flakiest people ever" and how it changed sex and relationships more dramatically and quickly than any time before it.
The proliferation of late-night comedy shows and the dizzying pace of the news cycle means comics doing topical humor have to be able to quickly write timely material, as well as jokes that stand out in a crowded field of professional joke-tellers on TV and amateurs on social media.
Do topical pain products really relieve aching muscles?
Do topical repellents divert mosquitoes within a community?
