Glenn Moore

Glenn Moore

Glenn Moore was nominated for best show at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards. As a newcomer he was runner-up in the 2011 Chortle Student Comedy Award, and finalist in So You Think You're Funny 2012
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Glenn Moore: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I’m Sixty Moore

Edinburgh Fringe comedy review

Glenn Moore seems to bend the laws of physics to cram so many jokes into just one hour. Not a single second is wasted on anything that isn’t crucial to the next punchline or one a little further down the line.

Nor has he sacrificed quantity for quality: every one of those gags offers an imaginative twist on the expected order of things that’s impossible to predict coming. Or at least I think that applies to every one; they rush past at such a lick that it’s impossible to keep up.

One-liner comics such as him are often fairly static, trusting that the brilliance of their jokes is in no need of performance-enhancing stimulants like a lively delivery. Indeed, Moore was once a little aloof, as befitting his middle-class home counties vibe, but not here. Not by a long chalk.

He throws himself into the performance, sometimes quite literally, displaying a hitherto hidden gift for physical comedy. More importantly, he turbocharges every strong line by breathing urgency and life, sometimes desperate frustration, into it.

Moreover, this onslaught of gags is in service of a story from Moore’s real life, not just abstract wordplay.

It obviously takes a lot of effort to write so many jokes and Moore is so dedicated to comedy, that his work-life balance is out of whack. That has caused friction in a relationship already under stress after he and his girlfriend had to spend lockdown apart. Now the question of whether they should have a child raises its head, and Moore has to decide where his priorities lie.

That his life choices are being questioned is what powers the new hyper-energetic Moore, whose performance seems on the edge of spiralling out of control into a breakdown – in contrast to the perfect tautness of the script. For example, gags that are funny purely for being odd are later given extra context by writing too sophisticated to dismiss as a simple callback.

There is no respite from his talents from the moment he enters the room from the back, mid-monologue, to the moment of the show’s satisfyingly tidy resolution. This is classy, gag-driven comedy at its most intense, and funniest.

Glenn Moore: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I’m Sixty Moore is on at the Pleasance Courtyard at 4.05pm

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Published: 13 Aug 2022

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