Tom Stade - Setlist Reviews


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 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
Customer Tom Stade - Setlist Reviews (1)

by - written on 10/08/07, updated on 11/08/07 (Very useful, 252 readings)
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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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