Show Details
Fat Tongue
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2006
Starring Comics:
Dustin Demri-Burns
Seb Cardinal
Sophie Black

Fat Tongue


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Description

if.comeddie best newcomer
nominee



Fat Tongue presents a twisted, inventive and savagely funny
new sketch show. Enter a warped world in which Hollywood stars
glass each other on holiday in Faliraki, public school backpackers
travel round Middle Earth on their gap year and designer couples
adopt babies with hues to compliment their wardrobes. A surprise
storm on London's circuit, this unique trio will playfully nurture
your dark side and leave you begging for one more lick.

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Reviews

Original Review:

Show Rating:Fat Tongue rated 3/5

There's a five-minute sketch towards the end of Fat Tongue
that completely brings the house down. It's a brilliant concept
and, despite being based around a well-worn topic, Lord of the
Rings, manages to cover it in a new and different way. It's almost
the perfect sketch and were the rest of the show up to this standard
it would be running away with the highest of accolades. Unfortunately
it's not.



A favourite set-up of this trio is to have sketches involving
famous people, played by actors that look nothing like them (often
crossing gender), talk nothing like them and presumably act nothing
like them. Instead we only find out who they're meant to be by
the fact that they call each other by name and reference other
famous people. The humour here comes from the jarring juxtoposition
of our pre-concieved notion of what a celebrity would be like,
and their portrayal by the actors, heightened by the inclusion
of one or two genuine traits of the celebrity in question. It's
a concept that works well for the most part but is over-used.



There's a mixture of recurring sketches and one-offs, some
of which work far better than others. One sketch is based around
the Gladiator movies and so feels particularly outdated. Another
recurring sketch involves a shopkeeper who claims that the pop-stars
frequenting his shop are stealing everything he says for song
lyrics, providing an opportunity for some fairly amusing puns,
though they do scrape the barrel with the age-old joke: Bob Marley
asking for some marmalade but being told it's out of stock, but
he does have some jam-in.



There's a great sketch about a guy confused as to why the
girl he was dating hasn't called back, that starts fairly normally
but gets increasingly dark and disturbing, but one about porn
actors is poor and cliched, relying upon sex noises to get laughs.
There's some effort to link some sketches together, but they
never form a cohesive whole, and are only truly united in the
song that plays as you leave - the different characters singing
lines from Search For The Hero Inside ­ which more could
have been made of



A mixed bag, ranging from the sublime to the downright awful,
which means what could have been a great show, remains just a
good one.



Dean Love



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Comments

From memory they didn't have a set - so how could it fall over?! Either I'm going mad or the incensed reviewer below has got the wrong show. I saw Fat Tongue and loved it - needed a bit of editing but a really original and zesty debut. I think they'll go far.

Gary Barker, September 2006


So laugh out loud silly and really really funny - it's rare to see a sketch group where all the performers are so strong. Best thing i saw at Edinburgh.

Sara Wadeston, August 2006


This is the worst sketch show, and possibly just the worst show I've ever seen. Crass, stupid and totally uninspiring, the only time I laughed is when a bit of the set fell over. It's phenomenally unoriginal and dazzlingly badly written. Stuffed with cheap laughs and crap wigs it deserves to be entirely forgotten. It makes me feel pretty sad about the future of sketch comedy in general that this show seems to be getting so much attention.

Kate, August 2006


Look out! The Emperor's not wearing any clothes

Mark Eldon, August 2006


If I had the money i would financially back these lot all the way to the top. They'd be worth it as they had the funniest show without doubt, that i saw throughout my stay in Edinburgh. Someone give em a TV show

Tom Onyeador, August 2006


I'm a big fat fan - clever, inventive and wonderfully silly.

Daisy Haggard 0, August 2006


Marvellously inventive and very funny. Pure sketch comedy that doesn't fall back on the wackiness that haunts the genre. If you're a writer you'll spend the hour of their show kicking yourself that you didn't think of such brilliantly funny concepts yourself.

Brendan, July 2006



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