Ed Gamble's been doing stand up for 11 years so, as he says, it's time to evaluate his career. With appearances in Mock The Week and a previous podcast with Ray Peacock, he's not doing too badly.
But his show doesn't focus on his success, rather it's a 55 minute exploration of masculinity, food and cauliflower. Somehow he manages to make it all work. He's got some nice observations on the absurdities of dieting and the pain it is to be a mentally fat man in a physically thin man with plenty of entertaining moments but overally it becomes a bit 'laddish' and bluntly crude to be to my taste.
He did, however, have some nice indignation at the audience members blatently and not-self-consciously going for toilet breaks in the middle of the show.
Overall, a pretty decent hour but there aren't any boundaries being pushed.
Score: 5/10
Venue: Gilded Balloon at The Counting House
Dates: August
Time: 15:15
Price: Pay what you want or £5 to guarantee a seat
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