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Rating: UNMISSABLE
Venue Traverse Theatre(Venue 15)
Address Cambridge Street off Lothian Rd
Reviewer Patrick Evans
edinburghguide.com
So... At the end of their gig Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden turned round
and asked the audience if they'd mind
staying on while the BBC recorded one of their
songs for use (probably as a background snippet) during one of their
magazine programmes and because we'd all had such a great time
we all agreed. The BBC crew, fronted by the kind of self preoccupied up his
own arse director even Barry Cryer couldn't write and be believed, then
fannied about for the best half of what felt like a rock and roll era
while Ronnie and Barry got bored. Along with the rest of us.
Not that they didn't entertain us during what felt like The Blitz. Ronnie
treated us to even more first rate musical comedy with a game of "name a
tune then tell me what style to play it in" while the BBC camera crew
posed on stage as if they were appearing in next month"s issue of Playgirl.
And while Barry gave us lashings of really old one liners (all of which he
wrote so fair enough) from his pantheon of the very best, the
cameraman practised his Pan's People era Top of
The Pops camera angles in three quarter length jeans (Designer Upper Class
Ponce £40,000) and you just knew that eras were
seriously clashing...The next thing that happened was straight out of any of the classic
comedy shows whose title credits have been graced by Cryer or Golden. A
cameraman with a hairstyle that would embarrass David Beckham was practising
zoom-into-the-guitar shots too close to Ronnie Golden's crotch for
Ronnie's obvious comfort when a member of the audience shouted "show
him your knob". Ronnie,
pissed off to the point that he looked like he would erupt like Krakatoa,
thought "good idea". unzipped his fly and gave the camera man
the shot of a life time.
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The director meanwhile, too occupied in preening his flowing locks to
notice what the audience were howling with laughter about, then turned round
to chide the cameraman and proclaimed dead pan "you'll need a wide angle
lens for that.". Comedy moments do not come any better...
Ronnie Golden and Barry Cryer give you an electric evening of
nostalgia
and good time rock and roll. The jokes are fast
and furious and delivered with sledgehammer delivery and immaculate timing.
As rock and roll turns fifty Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden proudly punch out
that they were "around the block before it was
even built". The truth is it is guys like these that
built it and Ronnie Golden is a legend and Barry Cryer a comedy
master. TV's top behind
the scenes comedy team are in town in more ways than one.
> © Patrick Evans 14 August 2002 - published on EdinburghGuide.com
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