| 10 August 2011
Jeff Leach (Big Brother's Big Mouth/BBC Switch/BBC3/E4) invites you to peer into his world of perverse but unmistakably hilarious misadventures. Prepare to hear all about drug abuse, alcoholism, anal probing, heartbreak and a very unfortunate train journey where he cacked his daks. This is unabashed humour told by one of the UK’s emerging comic talents.
Leach is an absolute hoot to watch, shamelessly recreating the most intimate and inappropriate of situations, while bringing each and every mentioned character to life along the way. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is when he developed piles through stress and consequentially had to drop trouser for the courgette-fingered doctor Ogeda. Just his facial expressions here are enough to have the audience doubled over in stitches. This is not a show for the faint-hearted.
The sheer physicality of his sketches and his propensity for nuanced facial expressions is incredible. Jeff is self-deprecating and incredibly likeable. His style of audience interaction is full on (yes, you may be straddled) but, coming from the man who happily admits to looking like a “gothic, bellend TinTin” and makes forts out of mattresses for fun, all is forgiven and taken on the chin. This show is as entertaining as it is repulsive, but in a good way. It is only a shame that it starts so late.
Jeff Leach: A Leach on Society, Pleasance Courtyard, 3-29 Aug (not 19-21), 11.00 pm
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