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ED2023 Comedy Reviews ED2023 Reviews
Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 17 August 2023
Paddy Young gets plenty of banter going with his audience during this hour of solid stand-up. The topics covered may not be particularly ground-breaking – the northerner making a go of it in the big city down south, and the politics and pettiness of flat-share living. Though I suspect few other Fringe shows this year deal with the trauma of being upstaged by a wanking Walrus, that particular humiliation being pretty much exclusively reserved for those who once aspired to be known as the funniest thing to come out of Scarborough. But beyond the masturbating marine mammal, the life experiences recounted by Young will be familiar to many, and he gets plenty of laughs from his retelling of them. The material is good, though it is Young’s on-stage presence – and that audience interaction – that really makes the show.
Pleasance Courtyard, until 27 Aug.
tw rating 4/5 | [Chris Cooke]
