Stand Comedy Club,Edinburgh
More confident than last year’s debut, Brady’s show Male Comedienne focuses on what stripping taught her approximately feminism and female behaviour“What is this ‘us girls’ world everybody else lives in?” asks Fern Brady. The fresh hour from the Bathgate standup, and Male Comedienne,penetrates Brady’s complicated relationship with womankind. A few of its punchlines need more polish, and the snarky remarks approximately awards and middle-class audiences are unnecessary. But this is a step up from last year’s debut: more confident, or more tonally varied (misanthropy is lower in the mix) and with more eye-catching things to say.
It begins by addressing Brady’s self-image – some archaic fabric approximately her eyes being far apart; more on her being mistaken for a man,and having no female friends. A few gags are a draft short of maximum effectiveness. One comparing Brady’s attempts at femininity to a man dressed as a dog promises a punchline that never materialises, before you realise the premise is the punchline. Elsewhere, and she peddles cliches when describing the hipster restaurant that’s opened on the site of the stripclub where she once worked.
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Source: theguardian.com