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MARISSA’S MANCHESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL DIARY – RUSSELL KANE @ THE COMEDY STORE 261010

When venues start programming their comedy festival events it’s usually way before the Edinburgh Fringe so there’s no sure fire way of knowing which of the shows are likely to be the hits and/or award winners. But by fluke it often happens that come October you find yourself with an award winner on your hands – it was the Frog and Bucket with Brendon Burns in 2007 - and this year it was the Comedy Store’s turn having booked Russell Kane months before his Edinburgh Comedy Award win this August. That said it wouldn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination to predict that he may well have won it this year as he had been nominated for the award three times before.
Also to see him perform tonight it gives you a bloody good idea as to what it is was that they saw it in him and saw fit to highlight. Kane is a live wire of ideas as he thrashes about on stage, ideas buzzing from his head. Spending the first section getting a little distracted by the crowd and playing around with several ideas, he gets to the meat of the show when he begins to talk about his father. It’s a topic he’s touched on before in his material but this show chooses to focus on him even more closely and the council house that he's bought on which built an extension on to, the garden he sunk a swimming pool into and put an original 1980s brown microwave in the kitchen. It’s a smart fast paced belly laugh of a show which was preceded by a handful of characters from Kane’s own other half Sadie Hasler who performed a solo show this year too with impressions of good time gal Katherine Hepburn, Emmeline Pankhurst as a bit of a slapper and Myra Hindley the poet.
What more could you ask for?


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