Wow! There I was reading the latest reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe on Chortle.co.uk when I noticed two reviews that had a certain charm to them. There was a brilliance in the writing that spoke to me and a very familiar feeling that I knew what the reviewer was experiencing. I scrolled down to see who this fresh new talent is and it reads "Review by Phill Gillespie". WTF!?! Oh yeah, did I forget to mention? I'M the new reviewer for Chortle!!! After all these years of paying my dues in the Fringe I now get press-passes and my words are shaping (or breaking) the careers of hopeful comics!
The first two reviews are already reprised here (as I wrote them!), first Neil Delamere and then Holly Walsh. I've back-dated the reviews to when I finished watching the shows (as I normally do here) and so far there are another seven lined up for review. All reviews should appear with this clever Google search. I'm so very happy, and I owe all the thanks in the world to the Vary wonderful person who made this happen...
ERRATA: It seems part of the above text has caused offence and needs correcting. People who know me understand both the non-serious "I love myself" persona that comes out in vaguely entertaining ways, but more than that they know of the respect and admiration I hold for stand-up comedians. For almost a decade I have spent so much time and money seeing as much as I can at the greatest comedy festival in Edinburgh. I've written an unusually un-elaborated line about "After all these years..." which tries, in a tongue-in-cheek way and using the analogy of a comedian making a break through, to express that what I am about to start writing could have serious consequences on people's careers. This is was not meant in a glib, gloating or disrespectful way - far from it. I was trying to concisely convey the slight nervousness and trepidation about the unintended affects that could happen from a miscommunication in a review. Ironically this sentence itself was miscommunicated and caused offence. This was never my intent and rest assured my admiration and respect for anyone who gets up on a stage to give to my favourite art-from (that is criminally undervalued in general) is as high now as it has ever been. Apologies to anyone who felt it had a different meaning.
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