Started comedy in around 1999, and was a finalist in the 2006 Scottish Comedian Of The Year competition

Original Review:

And when some material does emerge from the rambling style, it’s nothing to write home about: pensioners smell of piss, masturbation, bestiality –covering all the standard bases but without enough sharpness or originality to hit them properly.

There’s some daft charm to his eager-to-please scattergun delivery, but not much material to back up this cheeky spirit.

Can't agree with previous reviewer. I first saw Obie 2 weeks ago, as one of 4 stand up comedians in a show at Edinburgh's free fringe, and liked his act enough to go see him again at Espionage. LOVED his routine about Jack n Jill, Humpty Dumpty, etc, but best of all was at end of show when he did his total recall. He had 200 plus random words on a flipchart, (collected from previous week's audiences) all words /phrases numbered in sequence, he began a story, and worked these words into the story, without looking at them, just from random shouts of 14, 201, 78 etc, never getting any of them wrong. Impressive stuff. If you are in Edinburgh, go see him.

marion, August 2008