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Venue:   Stand 1 Dates:    2 - 25 (not 11th) Time:      16:10 Tickets:  £8 / £7

Simon Munnery (aka Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium) returns to his natural habitat at The Stand for the latest of his legendary AGM's and answers important questions like 'what do the railings of Scotland sound like when struck with a spoon.'?

Unafraid to experiment and with a masterful sense of the absurd possibilities of both the English Language and the world that frames it, Munnery, also a poet, is a Dadaist of the highest order. While TV shows such as Attention Scum! And regular radio shows have brought Munnery to a wider audience, the Fringe is entirely his environment. Direct performer to audience tightrope-comedy; clever, funny, often improvised, material that requires the ear to be almost as sharp as Munnery's tongue. Ask other comedians, they'll be coming to catch what he's up to. Why don't you?

Over the last year Simon has performed extensively, toured Scotland in a van, had another baby, moved to the countryside, and started to keep chickens. At last he has found his true audience. Of what the show will consist of little can be said with certainty at this juncture, for all that really exists are possibilities.

The Possibilities

1. We've all seen the beautiful and functional railings that proliferate throughout Scotland. But what do they sound like when struck firmly with a spoon? Simon has performed an extensive study - striking nearly every railing he has come across during the five -week 'Johnson & Boswell: Late but live' tour - and recording the results on a small camera. Quite a contrast to the other members of the touring party who simply wasted their leisure time doing physical exercise and studying dead languages like Spanish.

2. The Aubergine Sketch. This is a classic, and could have been written any time during the last hundred years, spurning as it does all references to the modern world. It features a trainee chef becoming confused about the orders of his boss and will undoubtedly be part of the standard repertoire of sketch companies for years to come. It is however quite aubergine dependent, which may prove problematic in the notoriously aubergine-free environment of Edinburgh New Town.

3. Simon has taken up the guitar recently, then put it down again, then picked it up again, and so on, hoping by a process analogous to osmosis he might learn to play. If against the odds he manages this there may well be songs in the show. Comrade Mac will be drumming hopefully; that is he may not be there but if he is his drumming will be upbeat and hopeful, hopefully. If Mac can't make it due to his Bolivian commitments he has offered to phone in his drumming which will be another first for the AGM.

4. The Great Temporo. A variety act devised by Simon and infused with the spirit of the music hall. It has to be seen to be believed, and even then it won't be.

5. Homosexuals on the Moon. A monologue by lecturer character Maurice Chutney. It has a slim chance of making the final cut.

6. The democratic element. This will be preserved; as in previous AGMs members of the audience will be encouraged to submit motions to be discussed; rules to live by, piercing truths (don't do it Madam), indecipherable drawings etc. And then Simon will flounder about - live! - trying to think of something to say about each.

7. Play Misère. 'Misère' is a bid in the game of Solo Whist where the player seeks to lose every trick and thus win. In a comedy context it would mean attempting to be completely unfunny for the whole hour. This has been achieved by Munnery before, but never deliberately.

8. Imagined Conversation between Two Trees in Winter. The first rural sketch written by Mr Munnery; it is funny, but only if you know a key fact about trees. Since this fact is used in the punch line it cannot be revealed in advance without ruining the joke, making it very unlikely to work before an urban crowd.

9. The Dawkins Delusion. In July 08 at the Bedford Fringe Festival Simon will be performing a whole show attacking Dawkin's 'The God Delusion' despite never having read it and having no intention of doing so. If it works some fragments may be dragged to Edinburgh.

Plus anecdotes, poems, prophecies and thoughts.

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