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

So I am standing there in Edinburgh castle at 6am yesterday morning, surrounded by a belly dancer, some Japanese drummers and the Sowetto choir and i’m thinking the fringe has truly begun…

There were other points where I wondered if things had started. That terrifying but reassuring moment when they lower the harness down on the roller coaster; you’re still scared, but you know pulling out now would make you look like a dick.

I had it when I arrived at the airport, feeling a little bit vulnerable it has to be said.
I’d had this ongoing fear that the landlord of my flat would be this unscrupulous type but he couldn’t have been nicer.
He even came to meet me at the airport to give me the keys and had a voice a bit like the Meerkat on the adverts, which made me trust him.

I wondered if things had begun when I got to the flat and I had that inexplicable sense of immediate familiarity with a flat that actually looked better than the photos.
The only down side to the flat is a pub opposite outside which Leith’s finest stand smoking and continually saying, ‘I’ll tell you what big man,’ without ever getting around to telling them anything. Read the rest of this entry »