I went through to Edinburgh again last night. This occasion I had only the time to fit in one show, and tea at Tempting Tattie. I saw the show that my mate Tony was in, Park's Circus at Roman Eagle Lodge.
The venue is right at the top of the Royal Mile and in fact about 20 seconds walk away from Edinburgh Castle where the Tattoo was on. Just round about the time of their show starting The Royal Mile was absolutely jam packed with people coming from the castle and there was also an enormous winding queue of people waiting for the Tattoo. So the road ended up being closed, causing a slight delay to the start of the show.
The format was around 15 minutes of stand-up from 4 different comedians. Last week they had roped in one of their friends to hand out flyers for the show. As she was 5'10" and dressed in burlesque gear many punters had been expecting a slightly different format. So having learned their lesson they had her compere. And quite an amiable compere she was too.
Tony was first on. He starts his routine with a duologue with his inner thoughts, recorded on CD. This worked quite well. I've seen him do his stuff loads of times and he did some of his tried and tested material, but he will always try something new and having a stuffed dog deliver some of his jokes was one of those things.
The room was almost full, although the kept referring to the heat, I was sat by the air conditioning so was perfectly cool throughout. Of the other three comedians on Patrick Hyland's performance was about the best and provided my biggest laugh of the evening with a joke about the London Marathon.
All in it was a decent show with enough variation to keep it fresh.
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