COMEDY
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Diane Spencer: All Pervading Madness
Gilded Balloon Teviot

Spencer begins her hour of madness with a lively anecdotal skit about her mother being car-jacked by a ferret.  Spencer projects a nice girl-next-door image, yet as she progresses to a tale of being fingered by a stranger on her 22nd birthday while dressed as Supergirl (an exact replica of my own experience on millenium NYE) we get the distinct impression that things are going to get messy!  From there, Spencer regales us with tales of how to cope with Sunday morning sex when you can’t be arsed with foreplay ‘just check for last night’s deposit … he thinks I’m so into it, but he’s actually just moshing last night’s porridge’.

Spencer is a natural as she brazenly slices through convention with edgy tales of ‘how not to get tea-bagged’, the man who wanted to put a ring on her finger (not of the metal variety) and having ‘a clitoris like a weeping purple grape’.  In one short hour, she details her descent into a world of madness entailing ‘slapping a stripper on the vagina’  and how she very nearly ended up with ‘a tusk, a monacle and a mole ear-ring’.  It’s easy to relate to Spencer with her coquettish yet flagrant charm, and as she fires her lightening bolts of humour at us it’s so funny because we know it’s all true!

Spencer is cute, candid and seems entirely without reserve – all the ingredients for kick ass comedy. This is an hour of dark wit and sparkling humour that will spoil you for the rest of the fest.