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Comedy 4 Kids James Campbell Comedy 4 Kids The Little Theatre - FringeHUB Afternoon shows: until Sun 14 Mar The title for James Campbell's show, 'Comedy 4 Kids', is in one way a misnomer, and in many other ways, exactly just that. With an equal amount of youngsters (small babies upwards) and their accompanying parents seated, Campbell steps out and with very little introduction begins to prattle on about whatever seemingly comes into his head. While mostly nonsensical, Campbell draws much of his inspiration from very childlike places and translates his findings back in a muck-around manner that's far from condescending. Utilising a number of pre-chosen topics and haphazardly throwing them out to his audience, he randomly grabs at the kid's responses and where his stories go to from there is anybody's guess. There's a total absence of bad language and sexual suggestiveness, yet it's not without a multi-levelled palette of giggle worthy 'naughtiness', Campbell's show is no less sharply delivered than the best of his adult schtick contemporaries and his comic prowess is spontaneously hyperactive. He picks up and runs with such topics as dead pet hamsters, bathtubs with doors and being attacked by inch high tigers. Warning kids about the dangers of being hit by flying cows while walking home from school or demonstrating how to get a cow up four flights of stairs is enhanced by the necessary silly actions and voices to match, Campbell is both captivating and funny enough to render his irreverent brand of humour to big or small sized audiences. People sizes that is, not numbers. |
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