So, the best Edinbugh fringe for quality and diversity that I can remember for a long,long time comes to an end. DARKCHAT's festival finishes as I spent most of the week, rushing from venue to venue, mainly thanks to over-running-shows.
For a group of sketch comedy fans what better ending could you have than The Great Big Sketch-Off. Basically, it does what it says on the tin. The best sketch groups split into 9 teams, with 3 teams performing over 3 heats with the winners qualifying for a final on the last Friday of the month. We came on the last heat where a fired up and relaxed audience welcomed host Lee Griffiths from Late Night Gimp fight to welcome the teams, featuring a Penny, an Idiot, a Wit-Tanker, a Sheep, Lady Gardener and another Gimp etc.
Some teams had obviously worked harder than others and it wasn't hard to eliminate the middle group featuring Elliott Idiot, whose set included an over-long sketch about " tiny, tiny weapons".
Initial favourites The Beard Group fell at the final hurdle as their mainly inprovised effort could not compete with the genius idea of Thom Tuck in a kimono playing a geisha hosting the Generation Game. The image of him browsing through a copy of the Fest, raising his eyebrows when reading " Mark Dolan - One Star" has stayed with me for a week and makes me smile when the real world drags me down. Sometimes sketches can be overly honed!
A perfect ending to a fabulous week. Roll on 2012, we have booked our flat already!
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