Showing @ Pleasance Dome 15th – 30th Aug 20:00 1 hr 16+
“You’re not getting rid of me”, Fringe veteran Dan Antopolski kids near the beginning of his latest stand-up show, and the following hour confirms this as a thoroughly good thing. Articulate, self-assured and just the right side of cocky, Antopolski mixes traditionalist zingers, “Her eyes were incomparable – at least to each other”, with an ironic self-awareness that renders any charges of misogyny or smugness redundant.
Highlights include some engagingly topical George Osborne-baiting (too satisfying to be spoiled here) and a near-rousing closing rap about the joys of owning a laser. If you have an aversion to over-deliberate one-liners, you might let out some groans amidst the guffaws, but it’s never long before Antopolski’s versatility wins you back over. One thing though, Dan; you don’t have to worry about “convincing” us about George Osborne in Edinburgh – his party got less Scottish seats in the election than there are in this row of the auditorium.
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