Adelaide Fringe 2017 Review: Sam Simmons — A-K
WHEN you go to a Sam Simmons show you’ve really got no idea what you’re going to get. Just go with it.
Sam Simmons — A-K
Comedy *****
GUD, Corona until March 19
WHEN you go to a Sam Simmons show you’ve really got no idea what you’re going to get.
Just go with it.
His setlist changes each night and on this occasion we were treated to Simmons performing an aria in soprano, indulging in a fusion of technology and badminton that leads to something truly homo-erotic, and conversations with himself from the future and past.
It’s not traditional standup and there’s plenty of material here to offend, but the audience lapped it up.
Admittedly some of the jokes crashed and burned, but at a Sam Simmons show, that’s not a problem as he either uses the moment of failure to criticise himself or he turns on the audience for not understanding his weird brand of genius.
Hilarious from start to finish, not too many comedians can get the entire audience literally doubled over with laughter.
A fantastic offering from one of Australia’s weirdest comic talents.
Tom Bowden