Geoff Norcott - The Shocking Truth About Men & Women

Edinburgh Festival Stand Up Comedy News

GEOFF NORCOTT
Title Of Show:     ‘The Shocking Truth About Men & Women’
Venue:                  Pleasance Courtyard – Over The Road 3
Time:                    7.00pm
Dates:                   5th – 31st August (except 12th & 19th)     
Previews:            5th – 7th August

We all know men and women are different, but how many stereotypes are actually rooted in scientific fact? Depressingly, quite a few. Maybe the real truth about men and women is so shocking we cling on to the simple versions for a good reason…
 
After deciding not to buy his wife the diamond ring he promised her – instead using the money to fund this year’s Edinburgh Festival show – outstandingly good stand up Geoff Norcott returns once more for the full month at the newly re-opened Pleasance venue ‘Over The Road 3’ with his new show ‘The Shocking Truth About Men & Women’.
 
Geoff has become a bit sexist and isn’t happy about it. A former card-carrying feminist, he abandoned his principles during five years of marriage and dubious TV presenting gigs for Nuts.  It’s time to rediscover the ‘New Man’ he left behind.  He is ready to concede defeat in the battle of the sexes. It turns out that women are just better – and, usually, right.

But we do like different things. Men like shoes and women like fighting…something like that. Men are good at reversing, but rubbish at backtracking.
Women are good at locating small things while big things elude them…

In an age of resurgent stereotypes, do you ever get the feeling that some of this gender stuff doesn’t add up?
 
A former school teacher, everything Geoff does is under-pinned by enthusiasm, optimism and a sharp comic mind. Whether it be on the comedy circuit or on TV or radio, Geoff’s abundance of energy combined with a storming mix of observations, impressions and satire has made him a hugely popular act both in the UK and abroad.
 
Geoff is emerging as a vibrant writer, having written for ‘Parsons & Naylor’ on BBC Radio Two & for Radio 4, MTV and Nuts TV.  His TV work includes BBC1 impressions show ‘Spoof’, presenting on the WKD Shed Sports Show, where his quick witted one-liners became a popular feature of the nightly debates), and BBC2’s ‘My Appalling School Report’. Geoff is also currently involved in an exciting new sketch show project due to hit our screens in late 2009. Radio credits include frequent guest spots on Talksport’s ‘Hawksby & Jacobs Show’ and the Richard Bacon Show for Radio 5.
 
OPINIONS ON GEOFF FROM THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE:

 ‘Absolutely brilliant, funny, caring, even as a small boy he kept the room laughing, but I do have a bias – I’m his mum. Even so, he is brilliantly funny.’ –
Actual quote from his objective mother posted on www.chortle.co.uk
 
‘We’re kind of hoping the comedy thing is just a phase.’ – His Mother In Law
 
‘Always Trying.’ – His Wife
 
THE CRITICS:
 
‘…Funny, charming and optimistic…’                                           THE LIST
 
‘…This guy is going to be big’                                                     THE STAGE
 
‘..A quick witted and amiable host.’                                             CHORTLE
 
‘..guaranteed to bring the house down at any comedy gig.’        MANCHESTER E NEWS
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