Threeweeks Review in Brighton + a Prostate examination
Bob Slayer’s Punk Rock Chat Show @ Brighton Fringe
An act clearly more drunk than the audience… and there were some very odd looks when he took his socks off. Once he got going, though, Bob Slayer worked through his paying guests with amazing skill, making humour out of our responses and expressions, and getting us to laugh at ourselves as well as him. The format means that every show will be different, but that’s the charm of it, so expect to become involved. His incredibly rude comedy and outrageous stories may shock some, and that’s nothing compared to other scenes, which left us emotionally scarred, yet in fits of laughter. This is what happens when real rock, comedy and a lot of drink mix together, and it should never be any other way.
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The scene he describes as emotionally scaring yet had him in fits of laughter was me receiving a Prostate examination from an audience lady on stage… I am not sure if she found it but boy did she search!
In another gig I only had three people in and couldn’t get going at all…
And Fringeguru said: “Bob Slayer seems like a pleasant and friendly guy, but as to his ability as a stand-up, who can say?” It is a shame he completely failed to report that I managed to get a man who had never been on stage to dress as Freddie Mercury and tell us stories for 15 mins. He needed to kept up there that long because I knew there was comedy gold deep down and we just needed to keep working the seem. Finally it came, and oh what a belter: He used to live next door to a male brothel (I forget where) and Freddie Mercury was a sometime visitor – it may have even been where he caught The Aids!
