GUFFAW COMEDY CLUB VERY PROUDLY PRESENTS - SIMON DONALD AND HOWARD READ

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Co-creator of Viz Simon Donald and the hilarious Howard Read preview their Edinburgh Festival solo shows

SIMON DONALD

Butch Straight Poof.
In a revealing rummage inside the Viz founder's head, we see a mind housing a three-way punch-up between machismo, heterosexuality and effeminacy.
What makes a proper man? Building shelves? Idly dismissing the concept of feminism? Not crying when you break a nail? It’s certainly not making an appointment to get your hair cut, or drinking Earl Grey tea.
However, if you can wire a plug and you’re not frightened of spiders, do you have license to ride an effeminate motorcycle and wear pink shoes?

‘Former Viz man, as funny with a microphone in his hand as he was with a pencil’ Guardian
'genuinely interesting and utterly hilarious… leaving us paralysed with laughter… will entertain and enthral.' Broadway Baby - FOUR STARS
'Magical… cerebral filth… witty and scintillating smutfest, charmingly enamoured with the childish gag, stimulates all areas.' The List
"superb inventive comedy' The Stage

'gloriously improper' The Skinny

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Simon Donald was co-founder of Viz comic and its spin-off swearing dictionary Roger's Profanisaurus. He was co-editor before parting company with the million-selling toilet-humour organ in 2003.
After leaving Viz he wrote and presented on TV, writing and appearing in numerous TV roles, including the One Show, Channel 4 News and One Hour with Jonathan Ross. He has also worked as a pundit for many national and regional TV and radio shows. He moved into full-time stand-up comedy in November 2008.


2013 will see Simon's sixth show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, his one-man shows at the legendary Stand Comedy Club mixing joke-punctuated anecdotes with some serious research, outrageous songs and cartoon-like character creations.



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