press frenzy here at marx bros towers – our cancellation scare and subsequent poster sabotage seems to be tickling the powers that be on what must be a very slow news day:

metro news

chortle news

edfringe news

plus a review from chortle and one from metro (not yet online). only 5 more shows to go – where has the month gone?!

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obligatory plugging

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chortle review

three weeks review

edinburgh evening news review

and remember, kids, it’s at c venues @ 5.30pm until the 25 august and it’s really kick-ass. oh yes.

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things that happened yesterday:

1. we were all on tenterhooks about whether the show would indeed go on, due to the bad case of laryngitis that our groucho was suffering. thanks to the wonders of lemsip and chicken soup, he went, he grouched and the audience loved it. woo.

2. we were all exceedingly pissed off to discover that someone had slapped a load of “cancelled” stickers all over a wodge of our posters. bastardsrsebadgercuntfaces.

3. we celebrated jessie (leading lady) ‘s 20th birthday in the bongo club, where none other than heather graham was also partying. well, get that.

4. some of us left the bongo club early to go and take part in the C venues event of the festival – 60 acts in 60 minutes. we were one act in one minute – which saw the director and I backstage with the giant pineapple brothers and trev (from trev and simon) while three marx brothers ran on stage in their pants and hats to do one fo the sketches. the pants – well, they didn’t have their costumes, so they did in in their comedy boxers. we laughed, the audience laughed. all was good.

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obligatory plugging

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three weeks review

edinburgh evening news review

and remember, kids, it’s at c venues @ 5.30pm until the 25 august and it’s really kick-ass. oh yes.

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sporadic fringe update #2: though my eyes may be bleary and my head aching from the wrath of the beermonster who takes my money and forces me to imbibe, life is indeed very good.

shows seen and loved include: noel fielding, andy zaltzman, rob deering, mat and mackinnon, richard herring, maxwell, the laramie project, wreck the airline barrier, bash, newsrevue, bachman and evans, jonny berliner and somehow I feel dirty to name but a few.

first complete sell-out yesterday – 130 paying punters and turning people away at the door, wahoo! for some reason, the other day we had someone from Perrier in, despite not being eligible – but here’s hoping they laughed anyway.

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obligatory plugging

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three weeks review

edinburgh evening news review

and remember, kids, it’s at c venues @ 5.30pm until the 25 august and it’s really kick-ass. oh yes.

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we’re a-rockin’ and a-rollin up in edinburgh – the good news is that the first reviews are starting to come in, and yay! they like the show!

three weeks review

edinburgh evening news review

my liver is taking a battering, I’ve witnessed a six-inch scrotum at Puppetry of the Penis, and shared a green room with Tina C backstage at the Fringe Launch.

and remember, kids, it’s at c venues from the 31 july to 25 august and it’s really kick-ass. oh yes.