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Brendon Burns: So I Suppose This is Offensive Now?
Friday 14 March
8pm
Old Fruitmarket
£13/ £11 conc
0141 353 8000
What can we say about Brendon Burns? After all, this is the
man who got banned from BBC live television for snogging a goat live on
air. A guy who handed out enough mushrooms at the Glastonbury festival
to get a thousand people high because Bill Hicks and John Lennon talked
about it but didn’t do it. A renegade who walked off the set of I’m A
Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here NOW live on air after just three
episodes as host. A comedian who wrote a trilogy of deeply confessional
stand-up shows that sent him clinically mad and committed to a mental
institution.
One thing’s for sure, Brendon is a man who doesn’t do things by half.
Now, Brendon brings his uncompromising style to Glasgow with a
special one-off performance of the most acclaimed show of the 2007
Edinburgh Fringe- So I Suppose This Is Offensive Now?
Rather than shying away from controversy, Brendon runs gleefully
towards it, spearing targets on the left and right with equal precision.
We all wish we lived in a world without racism, sexism, homophobia and,
of course, Chinese lesbians don’t we? In a world where unaccountability
and scape-goating is not only the norm but seemingly admired, one man
has the courage to put his hand up and say, "Hey I make mistakes and
here’s an hour of them". As well as "Can someone please tell me where I
left my car?… oh never mind there it is…". That man is Brendon Burns.
Burnsy’s unflinching wit covers every sensitive issue of the modern
era. Watching Brendon in full fearless flow is to experience one of the
most refreshingly honest comedians of his generation.
Press Quotes
‘Just occasionally a comedy show is so good it is like falling in
love. You run out punching the air, feeling full to the brim with lust
for life and joy…This is really something special, a show that makes you
howl with laughter, which takes you right up to the emotional edges and
which draws its strength from something very deep and pure. Long Live
Brendon Burns’ ***** The Scotsman
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