English speaking Stand Up Comedy Show
Funny comedy show by longhaired man (includes short play about gravy). All styles of comedy covered, guaranteed (some twice).
Andrew O'Neill may lead an alternative life, as a vegan, transvestite metalhead who prefers squats and hitchhiking to rent and bus fares, but his comedy is hugely accessible.
He's an assured storyteller, with plenty of winning yarns about life on the road - as well as an exaggerated flight off fancy about his father, a great British ‘spacemanaut'.
His biggest strength, though is his ability to generate the fragmented, bite-sized chunks of absurdism that pepper the show, jolting suddenly out of nowhere. Some of these one-liners turn into running gags, such as his woefully limp trash talk with one front-row punter or his musings on what happens in the Kingdom of the Blind. Others are just standalone snippets from a very active comedy mind. When he needs a euphemistic simile early doors, he reels off a catalogue of maybe two dozen of them, each as inventive and offbeat as the last.
‘Andrew O'Neill is like comedy ball-lightning. Fast, electrifying and even funnier than the misfortunes of others' (Alan Moore: Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
‘One of the most distinctive, imaginative comedians emerging today ... approaching the top of his craft' (Scotsman)
‘Always a delight' (Time Out9-L-
