Thousands of tourists are shuffling up and down the Royal Mile in shorts and rain ponchos. It’s fringe time.
I started off my fringe by heading down to the Assembly venue on George Street to see the first night of Adam Hills’ new show Inflatable. I’ve mentioned Hills here before. He’s a fantastic comedian who manages to be both consistently amusing and non-offensive. I must admit I’ve never actually seen stand-up live before, but I’ve seen enough on television to know that a huge amount of it tends to be rather crap.
The only thing more depressing than bad stand-up comedy is watching an audience chortle away (out of a sense of obligation, one can hope) while some poorly groomed gentleman in his late thirties rants about why he dislikes his uptight partner, can’t operate a parking meter or thinks Welsh people sound stupid.
Adam Hills isn’t like that. The first night of Inflatable started with an impromptu re-enactment of Flashdance with a bottle of IRN BRU and a jolly IT consultant from the front row. I won’t say too much about it – I imagine in-depth reviews don’t add much to stand-up – but the show is definitely worth seeing.
Inflatable
Adam Hills
Assembly @ George Street Assembly Rooms.
Until the 31st of August.
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August 8, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Brian
Hello!
I believe he was in fact an IT consultant.
August 9, 2009 at 10:53 am
betweencastles
Hello!
You are correct. I have fixed this grave error.
August 9, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Miss Edinburgh
Going to see him next Sunday, love the show he does with the BSL interpreter, glad he’s as good as ever
August 9, 2009 at 5:48 pm
betweencastles
He has a gag in the show about sign language, which I particularly liked because I took a couple of BSL lessons last year and could guess the punch line. I was wondering how the interpreter would interpret a joke about sign language, and am tempted to go to one of those shows to find out.
August 10, 2009 at 1:39 pm
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