After a big day yesterday I got out of bed late and thought I would have a quiet one and why do I feel like I have to explain myself to you anyway? Mind your own business. I only had one show planned for today, called "Masterslut" by Tim Key. I knew nothing about this show and hadn't even heard of Key but bought a ticket anyway. While I was waiting for the show to start I got a drink at the Speigeltent and went in to a tent called the Mess to see a 15 minute magic/comedy show that was really pretty awesome by this guy named Paul Zenon. Then it was time for Tim Key.
I really like going to see something with no expectations because I think its the only true way to be impartial about what you're looking at. This show was awesome and quirky, not quite as left field as Sam Simmons or Caroline Mabey but still had loads of quirkiness that appealed to me. The show is really well thought out and well delivered especially the integration between live action and the clever film clips...he uses the bath for this and you would have to see it to fully understand. Brilliant!
After this I was walking around looking for somewhere to get a drink with a couple of friends and we ran into Gemma Goggin (she has two shows at the Fringe) who was doing some flyering to get people into her next show "Gemma Goggin's Celebrity Sleepover". We had a chat and a laugh with her and so on the spur of the moment, we decided to help her hand out some last minute flyers to get crowd into her show. This was great fun and we got rid of them all for her, so she gave us free tickets to her show! Woo! My 2nd random "Fringe Moment"! (My 1st random Fringe Moment was one night when walking home and this guy was drumming on a metal bollard, which I then joined in on the next bollard and then one of the guys riding those cycle-taxi things jumped off his bike and joined in on another bollard! This went on in a mini rhythm-storm for the next minute or so until the first guy sort of led a finish and we all just went our separate ways, not a word spoken between the three of us)
Anyway, my two companions and I went into Gemma's show and it was a cracker! Basically she is sitting in bed and then brings up a few different comedians for a chat. In the bed...then more join, then more until the bed is literally bursting with comedians. Apart from some fairly inane questions that Gemma uses to prompt her guests, its all ad-libbed and on this night was particularly hilarious. Guests included two guys from a sketch show called "The Dregs" who were really funny and who I will now go and see, a woman from a show called "How to be Awesome: An Introduction" who was really the one who kept the gags rolling and who I will also buy a ticket for, someone named Alfie, another guy playing a German Hasselhoff impersonator whose bit was scripted and felt laboured and then a guy from a cabaret act whose name and show I have forgotten but who was also very funny. One of those really awesome unplanned Fringe moments turned into something even more awesome...this is why you really just have to "do" the Fringe.
Daily Show Count : 3
Total Shows Seen: 38
Total Shows Seen: 38
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