Show Details
Miles Jupp Presents The Lost And Lonely Rebels
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2004
Starring Comic:
Miles Jupp

Miles Jupp Presents The Lost And Lonely Rebels


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Description

Intriguing new play set in Edwardian England about the relationship between barn owls and occasional furniture. Not really, it's just a sketch show. A sodding sketch show. We come on, we do sketches, we do monologues, there's some stuff on video. It's about misfits, lunatics and deviants, some of whom are lost, lonely and rebellious, amd some of whom aren't. OK.

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Reviews

Original Review:

Show Rating:Miles Jupp Presents The Lost And Lonely Rebels rated 3/5

Best-known to TV audiences, at least young ones, as Archie The Inventor in t Balamory, Miles Jupp was nominated as Perrier best newcomer at last year's Fringe but his new show has got at best'mixed' reviews.

Personally, I thought it was bloody good.

Although Jupp gets sole title billing, there is no ego on display and Humphrey Ker and Stuart Murphy get equal exposure doing the most difficult comic format to pull off: the sketch show.

There is an originality of thinking and good writing here, with characters and situations developing logically in suitably surreal circumstances.

A method actor tries to find his 'motivation' in a porn movie; a man is told his father and mother are not his biological parents, they just found him sitting on the kitchen table; and after a terrorist outrage, the names of the dead are solemnly read out, but are all humorous puns: Emma Royds, Nick Rophelia, Warren Peace, Fiona Friend

Perhaps not genre-shaking, but very well written and performed. Miles and friends have created a successfully funny stage show here.
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Comments

I went to see this with a group of friends. I chose the show on the strength of seeing Miles Jupp on TV and in stand up. What a waste of money and time. I should be asking for a refund. A series of humourless sketches. For a whole hour the trio failed to raise a proper laugh.

WF, August 2004

This show is very good. Achingly funny, could not sleep on my side for a week as my ribs were so sore from laughing.

Liam Roarty, August 2004

This was the worst "comedy" I have see for a long time. They should have remained lost.

Dougie Robertson, August 2004

Seen him before but this show was a real disappointment. Cheap humour, some of which was familiar was laughed at by some members of the audience although it was obvious that the majority were as disappointed as we were. Miles can do a lot better and will disappear if he continues at this level. Sorry, but a waste of money. Go and see Andy Parsons or Chris Addison for someone who works hard to give value for money.

Niall, August 2004

One show to avoid. Disappointing compared to last year's show. There was heavy reliance upon one-liners at the end of each sketch, most of which went down like a lead balloon. It was embarrassingly unfunny.

Tom, August 2004

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