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I Fight! Fight! Fight! The Fringe brochure might be all screaming neon. casinos and Viva Auld Beekie. But like a guiet word with Mr Sinatra's assooates. there's an underlying threat of violence. Indeed. the Festival hasn't so much kicked off as Smashed granny out of her falsies. It all started so pleasantly too. The hot ticket switched quickly from The Odd Couples Bill Bailey and Alan
Davies to Alan Carr and Brendon Burns' flatwarming. With the combustible pairing of ‘Pooty and Shouty’ sparking interest from Channel 4. which envisioned a fly—0n— the wall docwnentary. and UK Gold. which fancied a bad 70s Sitcom.
I Canadian Phil Nichol has been busy rebutting Scott Capurro's acetisations of homophobia. protesting that he doesn't hate gays. just gays names Scott Capurro. Dismissing the slur as beneath his attention. Nichol (right) has titled his show Near/y Gay and taken to hanging out at the Assembly Hall with a bevy of adoring females. d0ubtless serenading them with his charming ditty ‘Bohypnol'. The Hall. or Hogwarts. as Two Touch of Freestyle Love Supreme has been dissni' it. after the boy hip hoppers were excluded from the Assembly Press launch, swiftly became a
‘Hilarious’ Scottish fashions
Whether it '5 See You Jimmy hats or men in old ladies' skins that they believed were kilts. it's how we dress through0ut the year when the Festival isn't on anyway.
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the thousands of pounds of debt they've got into to come here is spent or: being ignored i'i the street and the right to act up in from of three people a night in a damp basement.
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fOCus for controversy when its artistic director William Burdett—Coutts took a swipe at the International Festival. calling it 'backward looking and 'out of touch'. Despite being overjoyed by the prospect of a ballerina-led counter-attack. the Leech w; s unsettled to hear Burdett Coutts introduced as ‘Buffalo Bill'. probably a i‘efei'e"ce to the Wild West showman rather than the Silence of the Lariifx; body skinner. but that's
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Showcasing ".early their entire roster in an hour. the comics averaged sets of roughly three minutes and one pu'ichliiie each. some not even that. there was littie material about horrifically abusing another person for sex. that swckly sick Robin lnce 'Hgf‘t' has already cernered the rnarket. f>.it is durck to point out his Jeffrey Daliiiier and MaXir‘e (lair skits are so )arate gags and not a twisted Bonnie and Clyde l(}i"‘.{lk(} he's for the l. iliii fesf:\.'ai.
Sure'y this :s .' ow the most dangerous festival in living memory. with pundits predicting a bloodbath. Janey Godley (left) has adm'tted scarring her daughter by overwaxuig her eyebrow. Happily though. Michael 'the lhzng‘ (Shiklis lookalike Andrew J l ederer has recovered from
Gwang away free sugary treats and settling the age old ‘why fudge is different fiom tablet' argument are her [)OKXJHIIVC‘S. She gives with no thought of «(men/mg anything. Except sunburn on her nose.
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a bunion. Apparently he's been to a gym of the Leech's nonacquaintance. getting fit for Me and Hitler, about a homiCidal maniac of his
acquaintance. t's all fun. A reluctant pacifist at the time of writing. by Virtue of the court order. the Leech has renounced violence but promises to re-engage if Ben Elton's return to stand-up presages an impromptu showing in Edinburgh.
Crowds tending With another 150
people. expectantly craning your neck to see well. I don't know. I thOught you could see wnat was going on? No’? Me neither. Why are we here? Is that a iuggler’) Or a fight”