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Tom Stade - Setlist
 Tom Stade - Setlist ... surprising comedy is throwing down the gauntlet to his audience. How does a comedian decide what goes in his setlist each night? How does he gauge what each audience can handle? How far can he take it? And is the audience gonna be brave enough? Tom takes us behind the curtain to look at how a joke is born, to find the root and conclusion to some of his most legendary, controversial material. Every night will be an unpredictable insight into the hilarious yet complex mind of a comedian, his jokebooks and his willingness to take the gag and the audience to places they've never been.Newest Review: ... the concept of the board throughout, even though, by its very nature, much of the material was abrupt and went nowhere past a simple punchline. It’s interesting to see all comedy shows developing at the Fringe, particularly in the first couple of weeks before most of the visitors arrive at the end, and it’s clear that Tom is having fun with this idea rather than using it to hide a lack of ... more ... preparation, as the many jokes have already been ingrained into his head in their most basic form. The tiny audience acts as a perfect sounding board for his rants and ideas, occasionally offering an alternative punchline if they’re sharp enough, or s...more |
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Edinburgh Fringe 2007: Tom Stade - Setlist (The Stand II Com ... (586 words)
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Free-thinking Canadian comic Tom Stade exposes the bare bones of his profession in this latest stand-up show, which makes him seem subversive and post-modern while also effectively allowing him to use a script as part of the show. Clever! Based in the second, smaller venue of the Stand in central Edinburgh, ‘Setlist’ features a microphone, a table of beers, a white board of written phrases as ‘tags’ and a red marker pen, and sees Tom move through a broad range of contestable topics from drugs to the Third World, attempting to craft links between the individual pieces of material as he goes, with the help of the audience, and to develop each one into a better joke based ... Read the complete review
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