Craig Hill Makes You’re Whole Week
No trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival would be complete without a visit to hometown leather kilted local poofy lad Craig Hill and he had the packed audience virtually swinging from the rafters. Craig bounced out to the strains of ‘Come on Get Happy!’ and everyone eagerly awaited Craig making their whole week.
People are often needlessly afraid of sitting up the front at comedy shows, but not here. All of your fears will be fulfilled – be afraid, be very afraid. Craig makes a point of becoming intimately familiar with everyone in the front row and lashes them all with his sharp tongue. There was almost more audience banter than show here. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Craig is a master of audience banter with his greatest skill being able to get away with some searing insults and along the way he was able to create a small united community out of his audience.
His major mission during the show tonight was to cheer up an insurance salesman in the front row who was unhappy in his job. Meanwhile when he finally got into his prepared material, he had some wonderfully hilarious tales to tell of going to Eurovision in Serbia where they officially disapprove of Homosexuals, coming to Australia, his list of songs to wank to and his Shirley Bassey version of Wonderwall. I also learned a lot about living in Scotland like how to tell the posh areas from the rough ones and that Joey is slang for stupid.
Craig’s humour is unashamedly wildly camp, bitchy, ribald and utterly charming. If you’ve had a rough week and need some cheering, here is a great antidote. Just don’t sit in the front row, unless you want to be part of the act
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