anyone go?
i'm glad i didn't, if this is someone's idea of the 15 best jokes: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 04766.html
#1 and #10 are good (if you imagine Stewart Francis saying them), but the rest are lazy as fuck, by-the-numbers shit
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Re: Edinburgh Fringe
Those best jokes lists are always shit, not only because the jokes they always choose are shit, but without the delivery and buildup from a show they don't work written down.
My other half's a stage manager and she gets paid every year for a month long pissup when she works it. anyone not on the free fringe that isn't a huge name act loses thousands in order to try and garner exposure, I feel sorry for most of the acts there.
I joined her for a week last week and saw some alright stuff. Kill the Beast was probably a highlight as far as unknown acts, they did a ridiculous mock low budget 80s scifi kinda thing called Don't Wake the Damp. I liked it, at least.
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Otherwise it was standard stuff. Alistair Mcgowan's play about Erik Satie was kinda different. I also enjoyed the reunion of The Doug Anthony All Stars, despite one of the members having MS. Calling someone crippled by MS in a wheelchair a dribbling spastic on stage will always get a laugh from me
. Amongst their songs about fucking dogs and the evangelical Christian sponsored classic about not self-polluting there were some poignant bits to it too, I caught their last show and they got a Spirit of the Fringe award.
My other half's a stage manager and she gets paid every year for a month long pissup when she works it. anyone not on the free fringe that isn't a huge name act loses thousands in order to try and garner exposure, I feel sorry for most of the acts there.
I joined her for a week last week and saw some alright stuff. Kill the Beast was probably a highlight as far as unknown acts, they did a ridiculous mock low budget 80s scifi kinda thing called Don't Wake the Damp. I liked it, at least.
[youtube]I-E02VS9hUI[/youtube]
Otherwise it was standard stuff. Alistair Mcgowan's play about Erik Satie was kinda different. I also enjoyed the reunion of The Doug Anthony All Stars, despite one of the members having MS. Calling someone crippled by MS in a wheelchair a dribbling spastic on stage will always get a laugh from me
. Amongst their songs about fucking dogs and the evangelical Christian sponsored classic about not self-polluting there were some poignant bits to it too, I caught their last show and they got a Spirit of the Fringe award.[size=85]