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Richard Herring: What Is Love Anyway? (Avalon Promotions)

By | Published on Friday 19 August 2011

Goodness, he’s loud and fast this year. He’s in a vast, cavernous Victorian hall and perhaps he’s trying to fill the room – not only with punters – but also with his voice. Last year’s show was about the irrationality of religion; this year it’s about the irrationality of love. There are, of course, crude sex jokes aplenty, amongst self-deprecating navel-gazing, and shocking anti-romanticism. I was initially disappointed that the show didn’t seem to contain any of Herring’s trademark sentimental meanderings, but of course he saved it till the end and then delivered a whopper – an extended story about his grandmother recited over Debussy – followed by a soppy philosophical rom-com ending to bring this sweet evening to a fittingly mawkish close.

Udderbelly’s Pasture, 3 – 29 Aug, 8.50pm (9.50pm), £10.50 – 14.50, fpp140.
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