Joshua Burns
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
Coming into Coney Island Comedy, I had my reservations. Watching people with a liking for razor blade diets and rubber band masks wasn’t my idea of a beer and a laugh.
I walked out pleasantly surprised but for different reasons. It would be misleading to approach the show expecting some of the world’s finest comic talents.?? Instead, you’ll meet an assembly of talented – and bizarre – street performers, like a young man from a town called Penguin who learnt how to swallow swords over the internet (Is there anything you …
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
I don’t envy Simon Pampena’s position. Here’s a guy attempting to do something unnatural on stage: make maths funny. It’s novel, it’s quirky, but does it succeed?
A mathematician by day, a frizzy haired revolutionary by night, Pampena’s enthusiasm must be admired. He kick starts the show with a bombastic song and dance, but within seconds the mystery behind the ‘How can maths be funny?’ question is all but revealed. Pampena’s stand-up adheres to a singular joke theory: a daggy affection for arithmetic. And that’s where the joke ends.
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