Doyle says he wanted to call this show "Politics and Bumming" but wasn't allowed to use the title. Well it does accurately represent much of the content, a stream of opinions on gay rights and political views, with a strong desire to play the contrarian and push boundaries.
So he's opposed to same sex marriage, but for his own idiosyncratic reasons. He's a big Corbyn fan, but rejects the Guardian reading middle class reasons for doing so. Doyle befriends his audience, whether as individuals or en masse, then rejects them. He's always seeking the limits of what the room will accept, and certainly found it when he broached the ultimate in divisive topics, the EU situation. Underlying this is a well crafted performance, plenty of good punchlines, and sufficient orthodoxy-challenging to provoke the punters into actually thinking about what he's saying.
Yet there's one glaring omission. He asks us who voted for Corbyn, or for May, or for the Lib Dems, or for..... Nope, nothing more. To declare your interest in politics, then come to Edinburgh and totally ignore the different dimension to political life in this country is odd. It's an irony that a man who rightly complains about levels of entitlement ends up coming across as just one more Londoncentric entitled Englishman.
Andrew Doyle : Thought Crimes is on in Stand 1 at 18.30 until 27 August.
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