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Eat People Like You For Breakfast! Group: High on Laughter Ltd |
| Ravi Bali | |
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Steven Allan Green has been around as a stand up comic for a long time. He has some great stories from his years in entertainment. The title of this show is something Allan Green was told by Jerry Lewis last year, when he put on a charity benefit show headlined by the American comic legend. The anger and bile with which he tells the tale of how Jerry Lewis fucked him over is very intense and at points very funny. It does not however evoke many belly laughs for the simple reason that we understand why he would be genuinely livid at his treatment by Lewis. If you sympathise with someone and feel they have been dealt with unfairly, unless there is a juicy and humorous revenge, this is simply not the stuff of comedy. Even a tragic-comedy only works when the protagonist is a lovable idiot who naively blunders into something. Steven Allan Green is not this kind of figure. Apart from being too open and trusting in the cutthroat world of show business, he did nothing that is ridiculously stupid as to be laughable. I came away understanding his feelings of anger rather than laughing either at him or with him. A pity for a show billed as comedy, knowing he can be a very funny man, as demonstrated by his incidental anecdote of meeting Jean Claude Van Damme in a gym in LA. Even with the warning that I don't think it works as comedy, this is a fascinating tale with some real insights into the nature of fame and power in the world of show business. Go and see it! 30
July to 25 August.
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