comedy review

The Man Who Knows (Featuring The Magic Skinhead)

Man Who Knows/ Laughing Horse Free Festival

The Man Who Knows admits that this show needs at least five people in the audience in order for it to work, so you have to feel a bit sorry when, in this middle-of-nowhere bar halfway to Leith, you find yourself amongst an audience of three, one of whom is the bartender. This glimmer of sympathy soon starts to melt away, though, once the show starts. The humour is crass at best, at worst it borders on sexual harassment. Thank God for the magic tricks then, which are convincingly enacted and serve as the only redeeming feature in a show that would otherwise have struggled to make it to two stars. Nevertheless, it would take some serious Harry Potter action to make this half hour performance worth the forty minute walk.

Laughing Horse @ Meridian, 12 - 25 Aug, 3.55pm (4.25pm), , free, fpp 76

tw rating: 2/5

published: Aug-2008

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