Ed Gamble has been something of a fixture on shows like Mock The Week over the last few years so I was looking forward to seeing him live for the first time. This show was in Upstairs at the Pleasance Courtyard - quite a small intimate venue and I was sat at the front (where I like to be - mainly because if I'm in the front I'm negatively impacting the fewest people around me). On Mr. G bounded and I noted two things immediately - he's quite a tall, well-built chap and he's both loud and full of energy. No laid back interludes here - full-on impact right from the start.
He was excellent. Very funny with loads of laugh-out loud moments. He explained how the title Mammoth had come about as he had originally envisioned the show being packed with big, punchy, contemporary, satirical truth-bombs; his girlfriend had suggested it was because he was big and cuddly, liked to lie down a lot and without company would likely become quickly extinct. He felt this was a fair point.
A great and energetic hour of comedy. Many good routines: he was passionate about heavy metal but looked and sounded like a public school boy; getting a crap tattoo; being thrown out of his first band Tethered Priest; running the marathon (he's a type-1 diabetic so was raising money for a diabetic charity); private school experiences; his problems with the 69 position (hey, it was an eclectic set); experiences in a spin class and a rather unfortunate choice of username; how Jesus had great abs; many other asides. It all concluded with a nice little routine playing bassoon (it made sense in the context of the show).
A great hour of comedy and he's well worth catching up with ...
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