Comedy Festival 2018: Gordon Ramsay’s forehand a prime target in Best of British ★★½

THREE vital Brits and one Irishmen do their best in this omnibus of Union Jack jokery.

THE Brits have a lot to talk about right now.

Brexit, a Royal Wedding, a Russian spy being poisoned ... but did any of these topics crack a mention in Best of British (MC’d by the UK’s Dan Willis)?

Not one. Instead, the four comedians driving this omnibus of Union Jack jokery went looking for gags in fat people, sex, skydiving, sex, bad Scottish food ... oh, and sex.

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Leo Kearse, a Glaswegian with an accent you could deep-fry, compared his shrunken testicles to “Gordon Ramsay’s forehead” – nice – while John Lynn turned the memory of a tandem parachute jump into a tingly tale of male testosterone. This bloke knows how to spin a yarn.

Four comedians drive the omnibus of Union Jack jokery in Best of British.

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Andrew Stanley, curiously from Ireland, is your perfect warm-up man. His admittedly funny routine riffed entirely off people in the audience with barely a passing glance at his homeland.

Best in show? That would be Andy Askins, the balding, spectacled bloke who stumbled on stage with a guitar, admitted “I don’t want to be here” and promptly landed one gentle punchline after the other.

“I’m a compulsive liar,” he said. Pause. “No, I’m not.”

Best of British.

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