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Go on, get your hands in the air.
Yes, another Blues Brothers tribute Sketches galore from the Idiots Of
The ThreeWeeks photo crew will
(this one at C) – our reviewer Ants crew. There’s four of them in
be around the Festival all month
reckoned this was a very fine way total, though just to confirm, only
- check out their full Festival
to spend a late night at the Fringe. half of them are in this photo.
photo gallery later this week at
www.threeweeks.co.uk.
17-21 // COMEDY
AFTER YOU’VE SEEN MY SHOW go see these…
who is an exceptionally McHugh - This is going to sound
by ROB DEERING
sure to be a treat.
gifted comic. Naturally odd, but I have never seen

Love-ins - those were
witty, and constantly Greg McHugh. However, that
MY SHOW...
the days; orgiastic
experimenting. just goes to show how highly I
In the eye of this stand-up
freeform sex with hairy
rate Arnab Chanda. He’s won
storm it is I, Rob Deering, in
people. The show won’t
Two: Glenn Wool: for numerous competitions, and is
‘Charmagaddon’, an hour
necessarily take that
me, this man is the a star in the making. His topics
of comedy glory woven
form. Lucy Porter got
most exciting, thought- are hilarious, and his delivery is
around my big cheeky
down to the final two on
provoking, charismatic perfect. See him now before he
face, my guitar, and my
this year’s Weakest Link
stand-up on the circuit. becomes a household name.
deepest, innermost fears.
comedians’ special.
I don’t like making
I probably won’t spend
Impressive.
by LUKE TOULSON
lazy comparisons, Toulson & Harvey, Underbelly,
much time on my deepest,

but his clarity of vision on 2 - 26 Aug (not 13), 5:20pm
innermost fears however
Three: After you’ve
complex issues reminds me of (6:20pm), prices vary, fpp 101.
MY SHOW...
- who wants that from this
experienced
Bill Hicks. We need stand-ups
We were nominated Perrier Best
face! Anyway, the Weakest
‘Charmageddon’,
like Glenn Wool, who question Four On The Floor, CKP,
Newcomers in 2005, but have
Link comedians’ special
enjoy the very best
the common consensus. But he Hackney Empire, Gilded Balloon
Stewart Lee, 41st Best
a far stronger show this year.
- who won that?
in observational comedy
never does this at the expense Teviot, 1 - 27 Aug (not 14),
Stand-Up Ever, E4
Get ready for stuff like CSI:

from a leonine alpha male
of laugh-out-load punch-lines. 11:30pm (1:00am), prices vary,
UdderBELLY’s Pasture, 2
Jerusalem, and The 34th Annual
THEN SEE THESE...
whose laid back style and
fpp 47.
- 27 Aug (not 15), 7:30pm
Scottish Impersonator Finals.
One: If you feel like skipping
amusing accent belie
Three: Simon Brodkin: this
(8:25pm), prices vary, fpp
No blackouts. No costume
your evening meal, or
the insight, philosophical
man can inhabit a comedy Glenn Wool - Promises Promises,
96.
changes. No comedy wigs. No
nibbling on a light snack
depth and downright
character unlike any other Underbelly, 2 - 26 Aug (not 14),
respite. It’s not your average
while you watch, there are
hilarity of his set. For this,
Lucy Porter’s Love In,
performer I have ever seen. 9:40pm (10:40pm), prices vary,
sketch show
a couple of top-notch acts
see Micky Flanagan or
Pleasance Courtyard, 1
While never being less than fpp 51.
on before my nine o’clock
Craig Campbell - but if you
- 27 Aug (not 15), 7:50pm
hilarious, his characterisations
THEN SEE THESE...
slot. At half past seven the
choose Flanagan in What
(8:50pm), prices vary, fpp
are so believable that I have Simon Brodkin: One Man
One: Obviously, my other show,
legend that is Stewart Lee
Chance Change? you’ll
69
met audience members Comedy Club, Pleasance
Four On The Floor, which is
has his show, ‘41st Best
miss my show’s incendiary
Micky Flanagan - What
who didn’t realise he wasn’t Courtyard, 1 - 27 Aug (not 12),
made up of four finalists from
Stand Up Ever’. However,
climax, so Campbell it is.
Chance Change?,
actually the character he was 7:30pm (8:30pm), prices vary,
this year’s Hackney Empire
nibbling on a light snack

Pleasance Courtyard, 1
portraying. fpp 92.
New Act Of The Year. I’d like to
whilst guffawing constitutes

Rob Deering,
- 26 Aug (not 13), 9:45pm
especially point out Holly Walsh,
a choking hazard.
Four: Arnab Chanda & Greg Arnab Chanda & Greg
Charmageddon,
(10:45pm), prices vary, fpp
Two: At 19:50 - that’s ten
McHugh: Tickets Still Available,
Underbelly’s Smirnoff Baby
75.
to eight on the twenty-four
Pleasance Courtyard, 1
Belly, 2 - 26 Aug (not 14),
Craig Campbell,
hour clock, you haven’t
- 27 Aug (not 8, 15), 4:45pm
9:00pm (10:00pm), prices
Underbelly, 2 - 26 Aug (not
missed it by fifty-seven years
(5:55pm), prices vary, fpp 28.
vary, fpp 89.
14), 10:00pm (11:00pm),
- it’s’ Lucy Porter’s Love-in’, prices vary, fpp 36.
jason’s diary idea
which may also work as a ThreeWeeks column
One week into the Festival and all is well remains of my chinese takeaway out of straight after my gig and sit with the mouse
– have managed to avoid all start-up the cupboard, to throw out in the bins, and his family, and we’ll all have a good
parties because they are shit, and anyway but to my great surprise a little mouse knees up, cause I liked him - I set a trap for
the last real party I was at was when I greeted me as I opened the cupboard him and he walked around it and picked
was ten and it was my mates birthday.... - he was a true Scottish mouse, because up bread crumbs that were beside the
rice crispie buns and endless games of his first reaction was not to run away, but trap and brought that back to his family
chasing, not like the shite we have to go instead he stood his ground for about the other night - so tomorrow a man is
to here......you get one drinks token at three seconds and looked at me as if he coming in the morning, not with bread
the door, then get led into a loud sweaty was about to kick the crap out of me for crumbs but with loads of poison smoke to
room, full of people looking over each disturbing his dinner - anywho, after the blow in the mouse and his family’s face,
other shoulders, to see if the person from three seconds were up, he realised he was dead. So we’ll watch a dvd tonight on the
channel whatever-the-hell, is in, and do a mouse and legged it, under the freezer. couch and then tomorrow, I’ll flush them
they have their commissioning trousers on, So I didn’t mind him being there, until all down the loo.
and not a game of chasing in sight! the other day I was hanging my washing
So talk to you next time guys, where I’ll
My main stand-up show is all run in and
on the clothes horse, and as I hung the
hopefully have a story about finding a
going well, but as if my life wasn’t busy
clothes on the horse it began to squeek,
horse under my bed.
enough I thought “let’s do another show”,
but as I stepped away from the clothes
Jason Byrne: Shy Pigs, With Wigs, Hidden In
so now I have that to worry about and I
horse, I realised that the squeek was
The Twigs, Assembly @ Assembly Hall, 2 - 27
have to get other comedians to come
coming from mice, and not the mouse.
Aug (not 13, 20), times vary, prices vary,
and do it with me, so I’ve just realised how So the sad thing is that I have to go home
fpp 60.
much of a nightmare we are at getting
Jason Byrne’s Telly idea Which
back to people. I thought a panel show
May Also Work On The Radio
in the middle of the Festival might be a
Show! Assembly @Assembly
laugh, but forgot, to the run-of-the-mill
Hall, dates vary, 3:00pm
person, a laugh is something that just
(4:00pm), £8.00, fpp 60.
naturally happens for them - but for us
comics, when we say we’re going to
do something for the laugh, what
we mean is, I have to work me
hole off for this laugh.
My flat is nice and have been
living there on my own, or so
I thought. I went to get the
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