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Mark Walker: Scorpio - Fringe 2009
Live Review

Let’s be very clear here. A certain percentage of the population will disagree vehemently with this review, including the majority of the audience that were in the show tonight. Mark Walker can and does make people laugh but does this make him a good comedian?

If someone can make a roomful of people laugh, and I mean really belly laugh, surely that makes them a competent comedian at the very least. Not in my opinion, not when your laughs are only gained from expensive props, borderline homophobic material and lines that must have been considered old when Mark Walker’s father was first treading the boards.

There is no doubt that Walker is a good showman, he has a number of convincing accents, reasonable impressions and clearly the wealth to fund the most pizzazzy set I’ve seen in such a small room. But scratch the shiny surface and there is very little depth of content.

A limp wrist, a camp accent and a five-minute routine about Spiderman: The First Gay Musical may be just about tolerable if there was a payoff or a point. Chortle’s policy is generally not to reveal jokes in my reviews but ‘Spiderman, Spiderman, loves to be inside a man’ is not a punchline worth protecting, regardless of how much dancing about goes alongside it.

I glance around the room as Walker takes us through number upon number of famous Scorpios, listing which zodiacal traits they have taken on. Huge laughs again for pointing out that Charles Manson was bad but seemed happy and Marie Curie was good but ugly.

And so it goes on, Glaswegians have a funny walk, Sister Act is a bad film, men wank into socks. The laughs keep coming and I keep despairing.

Yes there are people who will like this show, yes these people should be catered for, does this mean I would recommend it? No.

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He is in need of a new review - his act last night was flawless and devoid of props! His material has developed too.

Becca-Jai Diyess, October 2011

Best material I have heard in a long long time, really looking forward to seeing his new show!

Martin H, August 2009

Extremely funny comic. Saw him in the Glee Club in Cardiff and he had the crowd in stitches. Brilliant night

Luke, March 2009

The worst comic i've seen in ages. He was dreadful- even resorting to second-hand sex gags when the rest of his jokes bombed. I didn't think it was possible to be less funny that his dad and Mr Chips but I'll "say what I see": a crap comedian.

jamie garrigan, April 2008

So original, not run of the mill like many comics today. I saw him at Southampton Jongleurs and laughed for days after remembering things he did and said. f##kin' funny.

Loki, February 2006

He is ridiculously funny. To me he is one of the funniest people that i can watch that makes my stomach hurt from laughing so hard.

Ultimate Mick, December 2004

Very funny indeed, the Spiderman part had me in tears. Saw his gay Spiderman in Singapore! Still can't remember it without falling about laughing. Fantastic stand-up. Simon Wallace 07.10.04

Mick Wilton, October 2004

Quite possibly one of the funniest comics on the circuit, this guy is a crowd pleaser and may he continue to be one, always makes me laugh. Full stop.

Dan Willis, May 2004

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