HOUSE OF WINDSOR Regal sketches with crowning glories to come .00
.‘JN‘ .a'.t .ear” 'trrlr .t .r llw- r til‘llff.
J’r'fl . l).'.‘,'“i rilWl JV" lll’rl’réth
"‘."I.‘f'l‘.1)l'l“'l.‘f"".'l“.'.‘,{Il‘ijrll‘ .r.'.,rrrl‘, lllrllrlllitll’ r: {let/ire ending the Hilllllllffll1‘fl7‘Ifjlr'dlrl'Ulll).(illfft/ltllf: l'lftll,
,ear that 'mannt;
rrll'lll‘, t,’ r.'.r'~'l't'rl.",f7 lrlllllrilldt", l'rr‘. irrurnr'u- .',‘rll :nexrtalri, r;r:irrilrle aw; ‘, anti, .1 villul, linllllllilllfrffil. then? Well lurrrrril, nrr lhe rlarr have added f‘uhir rr. l-lr'll' tr, their '.'.’lllllltl {ill(l linllirlll‘vllltl learn to morph Hill) the
H: rll‘.e: mt \‘Jnulsor anrl this, arl<lrtron is tr .'.~elt rlrne one. tirrrrrntr the surreal srllrnwn. .ll‘Jl o ten lrirhtrlrnt; raqe whrrh a: r illlllltlllltf‘l rnollern. '.'~.resternise<l
Ir. ii to
tsirnrlar to last .l-ar. their sketehet. are
".t irrrr‘ell trr irr‘. vastly original rorrrrlartrrierits of the (:ornerlie hrain
mORE corneas RRD THEHTRE THRR BOU CPR SHRHE OUR UDDERS RT, PLUS TOP MOOSIC FROM THE EH HERD.
LOOK FOR THE UPSIDE OOIUR PURPLE COW FROM RUGUST E.
STEIIIRRT EE JERRU SRDO ITZ REGIRRLD D H RTER THE ERRLB E ITIOI'I PM!“ HILLS RS BREflIflER flIORfiRT TONI TOITI CLUB TOR! LEE THE XXX HHPROTIST RRD DEBBIE DOE5 DRLLRS
‘ ‘(e/L/
Iafir) I mi
\ '1; d35‘_, ‘
BRlSTO SQUARE
0870 745 3033
NEXT ISSUE OUT
. t ' r ry 7‘ I ’I r K ’ 1‘ ' 4 'h A I} ’ 1 A Z k 1. ° “r. ' i :l. r" r .. r «1‘ 2' 2 “. ‘ r A ‘ " ' ' I" I”, ' . I 2‘ H." " .l. )’ will ' )[,(1.‘ 1 ‘ ' ‘ v “v I o r t t 'v t r v ' 'rtnrl'wxe"lUHHC,t: ' I v” ' {/tt‘? .'.r}r'rlf.‘r'u'l.} .'.'r','.'t" ." ' ' rJff i. lull. t w. .l, ‘. ,rwr rlmerrteriarltl'r ll~"" :' .i.:mr":t ' rflllllr}, {)(‘Itr)‘,‘((l "1' Ulfl‘i', (1‘ i"' V’ N
true regial statis ilir'av .2 na'twr
.(j'nf‘ytflfl/L (HT/(r (-o', WWW}, .1”? .
zit/filth)? 7-1 i {/{f' ~ w: r l ‘ ‘ :le‘ 5m )’ PAUL SINHA
King of the comedy world 0000
Paul Sinha has a szrnrile l‘.3(jl;)t: for enjoying llfff. He wants us all to remember those lltktITIYlt} moments when we felt like Leonarrla DiCaprrt, In litarrre While Sinha’s Krnt; of the Wor/(f moments are rather more ex'erytla‘,’ than halaricing; on the pros.’ of a tl<)()ll‘.(3(l ship. his ltKIéllllllt) of a string of minor \.’l(ll()ll£:f3 Hi the great battle of life is no less passionate. Probably the UK's only openly gay Asian stand-til) and fully qualified GP. Sinha's onstage persona rs an endearing hybrid. On the one hann’ he's the learned hollrn, casually drooping lll references to Christopher Marlowe and Guatemala. yet
constantly undermining; his own <,:|e\./erness wrth anecdotes relating to an moonsrstent love life and tempering his triumphs with the times when he felt like a prize twat.
Srnha is a gifted comedy .‘.Tll€" who rarely breaks off tron: 'llS dense. rapid-fire monologue to interact with the audience. But his meandering tale is so hOnest. heartfelt and intelligent that you forgru'e mm for not incessantly ad-Trbbir‘g or "(tuning 3' the audience :t' there's ar1,c.':e .r‘-
toke. This Lrolzr‘trr‘g "our 3" cured, co'rf'rrrrs that last year's ELK} nOr‘irnatron was far; desened. Allan Radcliffe I P’QSSEWCQ Cowtlard. 556 5551‘. unru’ETAtig «not 78/. 9.350”: 59—5 70.50 $750—$860.
32 THE LIST FESTIVAL MAGAZINE :3—‘6 5mg .IX‘“
KRISTEN SCHAAL Whispering genius cobbles together a hit 0000
The Assembly Rooms appears to have been putting up a determined campaign the last few years to platform a string of quirky female American comics with offbeat dispositions all of their own. Wendy Spero and Maria Bamford made inroads with varying success but it‘s Kristen Schaal who takes the biscuit as a bona fide kooky monster. With a stirring opening about her love of Edinburgh‘s streets where she can‘t help sensing the city's literary traditions and reliving a hit and run accident on the cobbles. Schaal goes on to beguile and amuse the throng (including a chuckling David O‘Doherty) with an often whispered show that we left wanting to roar about from the rooftops.
When halfway through she invites her ‘boytriend‘ onto the stage to help celebrate his birthday. for one tiny moment. it looks like the plot has been lost and originality has been dumped in favour of gross-out sentimentality. The whole. horrible truth is then slowly. expertly unveiled and a staged comic desperation replaces the audience‘s initial fears. There is one surprise at the end of the climax which would be a travesty to reveal except to say that it left us all wondering when we should leave the room.
Back in America, she is an increasingly familiar face through fleeting bit parts in Ugly Betty and Law and Order: SVU, as well as appearing with Flight of the Conchords on their HBO show. but she acknowledges that no one has a clue who she is over here with the double-edged title of As You’ve Probably Never Seen Her Before. If there is any justice in this showbusiness world. Kristen Schaal will soon be best remembered in the UK for an hour-long show that is impossible to erase from your mind. (Brian Donaldson
. /\.‘i.r',’l’7r.}r/, [h rt”, ». '. r’ ti'. . f\ , ,' ' .. w I ' ijflfl 21‘s.”, :.’./«.
W.