2012 Edinburgh Fringe

Simon Evans: Friendly Fire

Simon Evans: Friendly Fire. Simon Evans. Copyright: Carlton Television
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33: Pleasance Courtyard

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Featured on Michael McIntyre's Roadshow, Mock the Week and Radio 4. 'Sizzlingly entertaining ... Beautifully crafted devastatingly funny gags ... Deliciously haughty contempt.' (Guardian). 'Sardonic wit dripping disdain from every perfectly pronounced word' (Chortle.co.uk). www.offthekerb.co.uk

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Simon Evans's favorite Fringe things

I have two favourite things about the Fringe.

Simon Evans, The List, 21st August 2012

Simon Evans - 10 Edinburgh questions

A tremendous collection of answers from the stand-up version of The Idler and Dara O'Briain's former warm-up man, Simon Evans.

London Is Funny, 24th July 2012

Simon Evans shoots friendly fire at the Fringe

An interview with Simon Evans being interviewed at the Fringe.

Tommy Holgate, The Sun, 21st July 2012

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Simon Evans is a true and fearless iconoclast. No-one is safe from the perceptive gaze of his tiny, tiny eyes. But even as Hans Christian A is carefully and patiently dismantled for your amusement, Evans acknowledges the power of a good story to frame events to the teller's benefit, and to shape the consciousness of an entire nation, not to mention his own all-too-briefly malleable children.

Evans is aware of the outrageous, clearly nonsensical and let's be honest AMERICAN STYLE narratives pedaled to his children, by everyone from Big Toy to his own wife*.

He is determined to fight back. But how should he develop the arsenal to do so? How can he make his heroes - the likes of Shackleton and Scott - compete for his son's attention with Spiderman, or even Terry and Rooney? How can he make Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire really live for an eight year old girl who thinks that Avril Lavigne's Sk8er-Boi constitutes a satisfying narrative?

These things matter. Because Life is not a spectator sport.

And nor is football.

*Yes. Big Toy is a thing.

Performances

Date Time Venue
1st Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
2nd Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
3rd Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
4th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
5th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
6th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
7th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
8th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
9th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
10th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
11th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
12th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
14th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
15th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
16th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
17th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
18th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
19th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
20th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
21st Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
22nd Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
23rd Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
24th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
25th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard
26th Aug 2012 21:30 Pleasance Courtyard

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