DeLuise primer

The other night I dreamt that one of my lj friends (I knew who it was at the time, but couldn't remember when I woke up) had been to Canada, and met "one of the DeLuises", but didn't know which. I was, understandably, somewhat outraged that the person didn't know which DeLuise they had met, as well as the fact that they were unaccountably casual about it all and didn't seem to realise the great honour that had been bestowed upon them.

ANYWAY. There are three DeLuise brothers (that I care about, I mean, there are obviously other DeLuise brothers, by which I mean in other families there will be DeLuise brothers, not like the other Bronte sisters). I do not expect everyone to remember everything about each of them, but I CERTAINLY don't expect to have to dream about someone from my friendslist not being able to tell them apart.

( DeLuise primer. )

So there you go. Never again need you wander into my dreams without knowing which DeLuise you met.

Fringe 1

It's been a more restrained than usual preview session of the Fringe for me. This is partly because I have booked lots of things for the weekends when people are here with me, so I don't need to do so much at the beginning, and partly because this year there seem to be fewer things I'm really desperately excited about, so I can fit them all in. Most of these (apart from the penultimate and ante-penultimate ones) I chose to see because they were in the £1 members offer from the Stand. I didn't really write at all about the shows I saw last year, and I found that I missed being able to remember the bits, so I wanted to try and write about more this year. They're really not reviews as such, just things I thought while seeing them. Recurring themes in shows this year (so far) are feminism, and the performers undressing.

( Katie Mulgrew. )

( Nadia Kamil. )

( Mary Bourke. )

( Mike Wozniak. )

( Sally-Anne Hayward. )

( Ban This Filth! )

( Festival of the Spoken Nerd. )

( Brendon Burns. )

( Hannah Gadsby. )

( David Morgan. )

Tomorrow: Domestic Science, Hannah Gadsby's art show, Comedy Death, Eric Lampaert, Mark Thomas.