Sunday 8 August 2010

Ray Green - Adventures in Telly Land 3D - Gilded Balloon 3.15pm

Gilded Balloon 3.15pm
Ray Green takes us on a whirlwind journey through his televisual highs and lows, while trying to include all the elements of an award-winning show. This is great character comedy from the talented Mr Gibson but i cant help think that he is allot like his fictional TV character. This is a hard one for me to review as I've saw the show 3 times now. You see this show was part of the free fringe last year. Then it was just under Dave Gibson's own name but it is still mostly the same show give or take a few tweaks. Last year Dave was trying to play one of the big venues and get paid for it, so its nice to see his wish has come true, thing is he hasn't changed much of the show so when he does the song at the end he is still wishing to play at the gilded balloon's rivals which is a little weird considering where he is now. Ray Green's TV work is a highlight and the Hitler video at the start is extremely funny. OK Ray Green isn't really good at anything but that folks is what makes this show so dam good, Ray may never be a big star again but for me Dave Gibson is a star of the future.
ComedyReviewer 7/10                          Edinburgh Fringe Score 4 Stars