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Lass O'Gowrie - comedy letdown

THE Lass O’Gowrie’s monthly stand-up show promised, as entertainment for the evening, four special performances from headline acts. By halfway through, I was seriously questioning the validity of this statement.

Compere, Colin Connor, duly kept the evening ticking over with a barrel of cheap laughs, focused largely on one member of the audience’s breasts. 

Jimmy O’Neill, a dead-pan comic character from Wigan, reeled off politically incorrect jokes, short only of a kick drum and symbol to complete his most obvious of gags.

Gonk W*nk needs little explanation, as anyone who pays even the slightest attention to popular culture with get the reference.

His impersonation consisted of a limp wrist, a funny voice and the slow transformation into a transvestite bag woman, polished off with a dance.

Web of repetition

“Stroppy white woman,” Maureen Younger, raised the bar a little but got caught in a web of repetition talking about her love life and grew tiresome.

That all said however, the true headline of the night was Sir Arthur Conan the Barbarian who actually had me laughing, rather than gritting my teeth, for the first time all night.

Putting together a honed and well delivered set of poetry, impersonations and funny stories, he provided genuine entertainment, something sadly lacking most of the evening.

This might normally be a very good night of free comedy; unfortunately on this occasion, I wished I’d turned up late.