A Room With A Comedian is a creation born to document the Edinburgh comedy scene. Comprising of interviews, reviews and that with the folk who make us laugh, giggle, chortle and eventually piss ourselves.
Richard Herring talks about love, the value of comedy awards and how Stewart Lee is shite at doing the dishes. (Also features brief interludes of Simon Munnery before he goes onstage at The Stand)
An interview held in Scott Gibson’s locked car where he talks about the effect of his parents divorce, his dislike of American sitcoms and how only ‘mad cunts’ would heckle him.
Mickey Anderson
Mickey Anderson tries to unlock the key to human happiness in his latest Fringe show. On this occasion, at least, happiness is abundant.
What makes us happy is the over arching question of Anderson’s set. It is a question that Anderson grasps at with a charming cynicism as he marries academic themes with engaging whimsical.
Anderson is instantly affable, a quality that allows him to deconstruct the Elizabeth Browning poem, ‘The Best Thing in The World’ without it being pretentious. Instead it is an original idea that blossoms into a proverbial rose garden of laughter.
Anderson grapples with the thought that the more ‘you know the less happy you become’. He effortlessly scales the heights of these academic ideas and combines them with everyday observation. Tales of chlamydia, pictures of dicks and arrogant flat mates stand beside extracts of poetic deconstruction and the phycological analysis of unrequited love.
The effect of these unlikely couples is uncontrollable laughable and a clatter of clapping as the audience are lifted to fearless heights of chuckling.
Anderson’s set is accompanied with a clever slide show and is presented like a lecture. All in all, a unique funny man with a tight grip on timing and diverse themes. Mickey Anderson is well funny and that.
