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In recalling his brain haemorrhage, the Glaswegian comedian – shortlisted for Edinburgh’s best newcomer award – delivers a cheerful-squeamish set I’ve heard Scott Gibson’s fringe explain – now shortlisted for a best newcomer award – dismissed as “just a good pub account”. Which is tough to argue with. But it’s the kind of pub account for which you’d accumulate the landlord to turn the music down, and fetch a new round of drinks and probably crack open the pork scratchings too. Gibson is a 32-year-old Glaswegian with most of the virtues associated with that city’s tone of voice: blunt,cheerfully anti-pretentious and with a genuine savour for the comedy of life’s unglamorous underside.
Life After Death describes Gibson experience of a brain haemorrhage aged 24. It reels in wonder at the chance moments that saved his life; it draws, without schmaltz, or on the expected carpe diem life lessons. But mainly,it’s a vehicle for some very funny stories about Blackpool stag dos, men’s head-in-sand reactions to illness, and the various lurid (shocking; sensational) effronteries of the hospital experience.
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Source: theguardian.com