|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Brendon Burns - Y’Know, Love ‘n’ God ‘n’ Metaphysics ‘n’ Shit
if.comedy winner Edinburgh Fringe 2007
A comic love letter, and a preamble through the Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner’s brilliantly insane mind, this show has a giant twist in it’s tail...as always, nothing is as it seems...hilarious, heartbreaking...don’t miss it.
“(a) modern master” The Guardian
“The most jaw-droppingly awkward, painful, yet ultimately rewarding piece of stand-up we've ever seen” TIME OUT
“absolutely the smartest thing I have ever seen in the comedy section” Scotsman
"Nothing short of remarkable." The Stage
***** Edinburgh Evening News
***** Chortle
BRENDON BURNS. Brendon Burns. BRENDON FUCKING BURNS!!!
He once got banned from BBC live television for snogging a goat live on air, he handed out enough mushrooms at the Glastonbury festival to get a thousand people high because Bill Hicks and John Lennon talked about it but didn’t, he wrote a trilogy that sent him clinically mad and was committed to a mental institution, he walked off the set of “Help I’m a celebrity get me out of here NOW” live on air after just three days, and now Britain’s most controversial comedian embarks on his first UK national tour
For sixteen years, Brendon Burns (I’m sorry what was that name again?) has stormed audiences the world over. His stage presence is electric, his material provocative and his insight surprisingly subtle.
“Burns is the proud creator of the world’s most gratuitous joke, but look past the bluster and the bravado and you will find a highly intelligent and astute social commentator…Honest!” (The Guardian)
Brendon uses his confrontational and up-front style of comedy to capture his audience with a proverbial slap in the face. It may initially appear that Brendon is a purveyor of hate but his approach means that he is continually throwing up questions - both of himself and of the audience, on subjects most comedians would shy away from. He is not politically correct or incorrect making him a rare socio-political comic willing to oppose all schools of thought. With this in mind, it’s no surprise that Burns has been compared to such legends as: Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks. Those who enjoy this brand of hard-hitting comedy will be glad to know there is a developing young voice out there.
A controversial pioneer of his art form not only has he penned the hugely critically acclaimed and unprecedented “Burnsy versus Brendon” Stand up trilogy. He also has been the subject of a documentary by “The Aristocrats” director, Paul Provenza, was selected to play the Garrick Theatre as part of the if/Eddies award season and finished cutting his fifth live comedy album. With his sixth being cut and produced in December 2006. There has never been a better time to catch this cult comic and join his ever-widening legion of fans.
“If stand ups were dogs, Brendon Burns would be a dingo; the kind that eats babies” Rich Hall
“He remains as hardcore and as disturbingly funny as ever. The high octane Aussie comic discomforts, disarms and disables you in equal measure” Sunday Telegraph
“Just occasionally a comedy show is so good it is like falling in love. You run out punching the air, feeling full to the brim with lust for life and joy. I ran out of mobile phone juice calling my friends and telling them to buy tickets… loud, brash, rude, in your face and fantastically laugh out loud funny. This is really something special, a show that makes you howl with laughter, which takes you right up to the emotional edges and which draws its strength from something very deep and pure. Long Live Brendon Burns” ***** The Scotsman
“watching Burns is like wrestling with your drunken conscience. He argues stupidly about intelligent things and intelligently about the stupid” Dave Gorman
“Not only has he been pushing the boundaries for years, I’m quite certain he has no idea where they are” Jimmy Carr
“He has been compared to the legends…Burns has it in spades” Guardian
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
