2012 Edinburgh Fringe

Andrew O'Neill Is Easily Distracted

  • Comedy (stand-up)
  • 10:45pm (60 mins)
  • 1-7, 9-13 & 15-27 Aug 2012
  • Pleasance Courtyard
  • £11 - £12
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33: Pleasance Courtyard

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Borderline ADD sufferer Andrew O'Neill tries to stop looking at Slayer videos on YouTube long enough to write another very funny, very odd show. 'Absolutely hilarious' (Neil Gaiman). 'Comedic brilliance' (TimeOut). 'The very definition of Alternative' (Guardian). 'Do not leave Edinburgh without seeing him' (Scotsman). As seen on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle and heard on Radio One and Radio 5 Live. Sponsored by Withered Claws.

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Secret Edinburgh: Andrew O'Neill

SSP goes a little goth this afternoon as we delve into Edinburgh's alternative clothing shops, wizard-like people and proprietors who dress like pirates with Andrew O'Neill.

Tim Clark, Such Small Portions, 2nd August 2012

Steampunk goth Andrew O'Neill is easily distracted

An interview with Andrew O'Neill about his new Fringe show.

Tommy Holgate, The Sun, 21st July 2012

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Metal-head transvestite anarchist vegan comic Andrew O'Neill is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show entitled Andrew O Neil Is Easily Distracted. This year, in a quest for enlightenment, Andrew splices together random thoughts, snippets of overheard conversations, songs and adverts for withered claws. The ultimate extension of the cut-up technique, Andrew includes all the different types of comedy: political, surreal, silly, serious, offensive, charming. Like all your favourite comics put into a blender. Or something.

There is actual singing, some mime, considerable shouting and a meditation on the decline of heavy industry in the North of England. It's a laugh riot. Andrew talks about the real birthplace of Christ, the fact that sex is really very brilliant, how he's worried that he might be wrong about there being no Gods (plural) and talks sensitively and delicately about the controversial issue of Goblin Farts. He tells you how spice up your boring job by telling lies and proves that Justin Bieber is the very centre of all meaning.

Since his Edinburgh Fringe appearance in 2009 with his critically acclaimed show Occult Comedian, Andrew O'Neill has performed stand-up on the televised Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala and Good News Week, appeared as a guest panelist on Spicks & Specks and was one of only three comedians to film guest appearances on Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. In February 2011 he staged a one-man takeover of the Radio One Rock Show.

2012 will be his 9th consecutive Edinburgh Fringe - in the last two years he has played at Melbourne International Comedy Festival (twice), Adelaide Fringe (twice) and New Zealand International Comedy Festival. This and last year saw Andrew tour his show Alternative across the UK. He is a huge hit with both the comedy and the heavy metal and rock communities - last year he was MC at Sonisphere, the headline act at Download Festival Comedy Stage and co-host of the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Event with Alice Cooper.

Performances

Date Time Venue
1st Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
2nd Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
3rd Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
4th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
5th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
6th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
7th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
9th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
10th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
11th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
12th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
13th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
15th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
16th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
17th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
18th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
19th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
20th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
21st Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
22nd Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
23rd Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
24th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
25th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
26th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard
27th Aug 2012 22:45 Pleasance Courtyard

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