Go see Andrew O'Neill! Seriously!

[sharplittleteeth]

Had an brilliant evening at the Comedy Festival last night. Celia Pacquola, Andrew O'Neill, Die Roten Punkte's Haus Party at the Festival Club. And then home to download the excellent new Doctor Who episode*.

All of it wonderful. But I'm not here to talk about that.

I here to tell you: if you're any sort of geek, you MUST see Andrew O'Neill's show.

He's a geeky long haired metalhead. He tells jokes about comics writer Alan Moore, about occultist Aleister Crowley, about being hassled by blokey blokes just because he likes wearing women's clothing in public. And it all works. Even to an audience that had never heard of half the things he was talking about. He makes it work.

It's easily the best and funniest show I've seen at the Festival.

Here's a sample:

Go see him. Seriously.

* It's obviously early days. But I think Matt Smith just became My Doctor. Sorry, Christopher Eccleston.

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I have beer, let the Doctor Who marathon commence. :)

You're into the specials?
Hooboy.
Break out the hard stuff now.

[blithespirit.livejournal.com]

You mean the Christmas/Easter specials? Yeah, it did end up feeling like a bit of a slog. :)
The bummer was I'd already seen the good one (Waters of Mars) so I had to skip that one today. :)

[greylock.livejournal.com]

The End of Time sucked new dimensions of Suck.

Yeah, Waters of Mars was the only memorable one of the lot... until they completely undid the emotional sting in the end with the first five minutes of End of Time.

End of Time: 5 minutes of Wilf and The Doctor in a coffee shop plus 120 moments of shite.