In fact we are the wierdest audience he has had all year. He thinks we should be laughing more, belly laughing perhaps at his really good lines. The sketches included actresses researching being whores for a TV role, Jennifer Lopez backing dancers, builders in a cafe, rude receptionists at a surgery, a neurotic Irish mother, Hackney girls with attitude problems and weight watchers' local meetings. He even offers cushions to the last person laughing but only Simon in the front row manages to earn one. The size of the audience means when we vote if we prefer cats or dogs, he can count the hands, rather than judge the voices.
Cats win, but only because the sound engineer votes.
We were even given sweets from a hyper member of the team while queuing up. Yet this show was the wrong side of the watershed, and they were also short of their advertised claim of doing 60 characters in 60 minutes. Far Too Happy by the Cambridge Footlights, Pleasance, Edinburgh THIS WAS a strange, albeit well performed, sketch show using a wide spectrum of characters in unconnected sketches. For years, he was single and happy in his misery. If anything the title of the show should have included animals, which take up a lot of the hour.