Edinburgh Fringe Reviews 2004
Adam Bloom
Adam Hills
Alex Horne
Andrew Maxwell
Andy Train
Boothby Graffoe
& The Following People

Cabbages
Cambridge Medics Revue
Chris Addison
Colin Murphy
Comedy Zone
Dan Antopolski
Daniel Kitson
Dara O'Briain
Dean Cameron's
Nigerian Spam Scam Scam

Dean Friedman
Doniert Macfarlane
Durham Review
The Dutch Elm Conservatoire
Freedumb
Gary Le Strange
H-BAM
Helen Lederer
Helmut's Half Hour
Howard Read
Jackson's Way
Jimmy Carr
Jo Caulfield
John Oliver & Andy Zaltzman
Lucy Porter
Mark Thomas
Nancy Cartwright
Neutrino: The Instant Movie
Otis Lee Crenshaw
Oxford Revue
Paul Tonkinson
Reginald D Hunter
Richard Herring
Rob Brydon -
The Keith Barret Show

Sarah Kendall
Shazia Mirza
Sheila Hamilton
Simon Munnery's AGM
Spencer Brown
Stephen K Amos
Stewart Lee
Wendy Spero
Will Smith
Xprov

 
Comedy Review

Boothby Graffoe &
The Following People

Pleasance One

Silly songs and surreal ramblings are Boothby Graffoe's stock-in-trade and there is plenty of weirdness here. This year complete with a three piece backing band, The Following People, his songs are leant a little more gravitas and orchestrating some of his daft songs is amusing in itself. Imaginative songs about pet polar bears and baseball-playing spiders are interspersed with journeys through Boothby's parallel universe where it seems anything can happen and unusually does. In this relaxed atmosphere he makes the cavernous Pleasance One seem like an intimate little jazz club with comedy an added bonus, occasionally having animated conversations with his fingers and even giving each one a different accent and character. Boothby is living testament that sometimes good things can happen when you listen to the voices in your head.

Talk to the hand.