In Manchester tomorrow and Sat. A rare opportunity to see this machine-gun obscene comic genius, probably the best stand up I've seen (out of a lot).
No way! Thanks for that.
I met him once, sat outside a coffee shop in Edinburgh. Got a picture with him, thoroughly nice chap. I think he was slightly surprised anyone recognised him.
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Comically witty.
'Hello [s]moose.......[/s] SaxonRider'.
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The maddest 2 hour rant I've ever heard, he didn't stop for breath, just spat his way through some pretty obscene stuff, but my god it was funny.
Do not go if easily offended.
Seeing him on telly was one of the saddest things ever. It's like they had his balls in a remote control vice with a stern warning to keep things within limits.
He's also an excellent conjurer!
Seeing him on telly was one of the saddest things ever. It's like they had his balls in a remote control vice with a stern warning to keep things within limits.
This + 1.
Strangely, I find it exactly the opposite with Frankie Boyle.
I find him funny when he's on TV and forced to constrain himself a bit but cannot abide him when he's live and uncensored.
I think it's cos Frankie is still a bit monotonous and dead pan, Whereas JS is anything but, he's a ****in angry man.
Saw him years ago in Portsmouth, expected card tricks interspersed with humour but he just ranted for a few hours. One of those leave in pain from laughing so much gigs.
Is he touring?
Never seen him live but used to quite enjoy his show in the early days of channel 5, possibly because I was about 13, won't be able to see him this weekend but will keep him on my radar. I'd kind of forgotten about him and assumed he'd died.
He's also an excellent conjurer!
Yep - I once worked for a M.D. who was in the magic circle and he paid him to come to our christmas do and go round the tables. Total amazeballs.
I met him before a gig and he was charming and wanted to get me in for free (I insisted on paying). He then went on stage and cracked lines like, 'Michael Ryan? He's me hero! He didn't discriminate, he shot everybody!' When I took the Mrs to see him we laughed without interruption for an hour and a half, tears in eyes and aching jaws. Sadly I won't be able to be there but, as above, he comes strongly recommended.
"Pour boiling water over a Dundonian's head and you have invented a new flavour of pot noodle."
A brave statement to make at the Marryat hall in Dundee... 😆
Saw him in Leeds week before last I think. Romantic night out with my wife. He's either perfected circular breathing or learnt to inhale through his rear end. The latter being something I'd prefer not to contemplate after his graphic account of the symptoms of his ulcerative colitis.
Support act was a charming, mild mannered magician who's name I forget who added as an afterthought, "as I'm warming up for Jerry Sadowitz I'd just like to say *, *, *, your *, *, ****." Which got a surprised laugh.
I'll add thought that I felt pretty uncomfortable in places. It was a largely male middleaged audience, and 99.5% white. His well past the knuckle stuff on race and the proximity of Bradford etc I'm sure is intended as ironic on some level and to make the audience challenge cosier assumptions as in wtf are we laughing along with? (That's how I'd justify it anyway - he's playing a monster but in real life is a guardian reader.) But sitting in that audience it felt uncomfortably a lot like us laughing at them.
He does a good Jimmy Saville impression too. Always goes down well in Leeds.
Cheers Cougar. Damn, not near enough.
His website is brilliant- http://www.jerrysadowitz.com