We broke our Edinburgh Festival duck of the year by going to see the Fred MacAulay show in the Assembly Rooms @ George Street this year.
Now I’ve seen him in the past and remember being most amused by his reasonably clean performance – he is of the older generation after all and a lot of his audience probably tune in to his radio show on BBC Radio Scotland through the week. Nothing too outrageous.
The show on Friday night however was different – not because it was ‘alternative’ or he told blue/racist jokes or anything – it just wasn’t that funny 🙁
I know it was preview night so it was pretty cheap but it felt like he hadn’t really planned out his act. It started off very relaxed and quite amusing but then most of his show was taken up by a power point presentation of his school drawings from 1962 or thereabouts when he was 4 and a half years old.
This was quite amusing but didn’t really go anywhere. It seemed to last for 90% of his time though and when it came to the end and he checked his watch several times to see how long he had left we must have whizzed through them quicker than expected as he tried to pad for a couple of minutes. I was cringing by now as it was very awkward.
Anyway – it was the opening night so hopefully he will improve – he had better!
Blm