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Venue:   Stand 2 Dates:    2 - 24 (not 11th) Time:     13:25 Tickets: £8 / £7

Seymour Mace, hopefully with his pants firmly under his trousers, is bravely stepping up a league or three and has set his sights on the Big Fella. God is liable to get it in the neck (if she has one) as Mace impudently tackles the biggest best seller ever, The Bible

Last year it was superheroes (Where's Batman? My Life As A Failed Superhero), now the wilfully odd Mancunian, Seymour Mace, hopefully with his pants firmly under his trousers, is bravely stepping up a league or three and has set his sights on the Big Fella. God is liable to get it in the neck (if she has one) as Mace impudently tackles the biggest best seller ever, The Bible. As wittily inventive as the gawky Mace may be, you have to ask: Is this a good idea? Will Seymour survive the inevitable wrath? Come and find out...

We all know who God is, but do we know what he's really like? I've tried talking to him but he always seems to be a bit busy, probably playing poker on the internet. Anyway, whilst waiting for him to get in touch I found this book all about him and all his mates. It's called The Bible and apparently it's pretty popular, although I only know a couple of people who've read it and they're both mad. Nevertheless I thought I'd give it a go and, what do you know, it's a revelation. Here I was thinking God was some benevolent old uncle-type character with a big fluffy white beard sitting on a cloud and being nice to everybody, basically Father Christmas in a night gown. How wrong I was. Turns out he's not so whiter than white after all. He's actually pretty flawed; jealous, angry and petulant. In fact he behaves just like a bitter old man who's spent too much time living by himself. Perhaps that's why I identify with him so readily. He's just a bloke, not a very nice bloke, but a bloke nonetheless.

I decided to take a leaf out of Jesus' book, not the Bible, and banished myself to the wilderness for forty days and forty nights or until I came up with a show. It was tough constantly being tempted by The Devil, who seems to be dressing like a clown and flogging hamburgers these days. By the time my period of isolation came to a close there was certainly someone talking to me. I thought it might be God but it turned out be a policeman telling me to get off my fat arse and be on my way, so I'm having a quick bath and then heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to spread the word with a fair smattering of swearing and a healthy dollop of blasphemy. I'm going to tell God's story from Genesis to Revelation for those that don't know and those that think they do. Unfortunately it's not a very suitable story for the kiddies as there's far too much blood, gore, rape, pillage, wanton destruction and a whole load of sodomy, not to mention the environmental implications of a bloke who lives inside a whale. So, basically, it's God's story told the way I see it, and if God's not happy with that then he's more than welcome to come along and say so. In fact if he's up there listening then I'll be at The Stand throughout August, just waiting to be saved.

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'Always fun to watch, wilfully odd yet compelling'
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'A stand-up with a decidedly idiosyncratic edge'
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