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Venue:      Stand 2 Dates:       1 - 24 August                     (not 11) Time:        23:30 Tickets:    £7 / £6

"Nearby alternative for when Kitson sells out. Cheap too." Before I started comedy, a joke was just a joke. Then I started to do comedy, and joke was more than a joke. Now I understand comedy, a joke is just a joke.

David Longley doesn't see the point in press releases...

There's no compelling reason as to why you should see this show above anyone else's. Strange as human beings are, we will pay money to see a show, and if it turns out to be a crap show, we'll still sit there because: "I've paid, so I might as well stay."

It is this mentality I intend to address.

It makes no sense. Like a lot of things, it makes no sense but we keep doing it. I don't really see any sense in writing this. I don't actually believe that reading this will make one iota of difference to your decision to see the show or not.

Yet, here I am. Typing away. Just. Bollocks. Pointless. Bollocks.

So what is my show about? Well, despite being en vogue, it is not a personal journey of self discovery whereby I somehow affirm our human existence by laying bare my soul. There are 6 billion of us. Get over yourself.

There's no point dressing it up, I'm gonna rip the piss out of stuff. Not easy stuff, difficult stuff. You know, clever stuff so that people will be impressed and shit.

I'm reluctant to tell you what stuff, because then I'll get a certain bunch of people in that already want to hear the kind of things I will say. Which is shite. There is no fun in preaching to the choir. The media, press, sensibilities, religion, love. All that bullshit. I'm gonna rip the piss out of that stuff.

At the end of the day, I am not famous, and most people know who they want to go and see anyway. Which brings me back to the complete fucking pointlessness of this exercise!

I assure you that I am funny. ALL of the shows at the Fringe look good. That is marketing. Even a shit review will be chopped to make it sound good. Just go along to a show, and see what it's like. If it is crap after 20 minutes, get up and leave. Life is too short.

I sound like a twat. I know. Some people believe there are two ways to motivate, the stick or the carrot. Me? I am all about yin/yang balance. I get a massive carrot and twat people with it.

Before I started comedy, a joke was just a joke. Then I started to do comedy, and joke was more than a joke. Now I understand comedy, a joke is just a joke.

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