Limmy's Show

“Let the story commence,” begins Limmy in his self-titled Fringe début, Limmy's Show. But for Brian Limond the story has already started. Last year his podcast sensation, World of Glasgow, introduced a cast of cynical Glaswegians to a worldwide audience, and earlier his swearing internet xylophone caught public attention.

But now Limmy has broken out of personal computers and into the Fringe spotlight, thankfully losing none of his comic sense of vitriol in transition. With dark scenarios and deluded characters, Limmy engages his audience like a wizened storyteller. He draws them in close with bleak conundrums, keeping their attention until a moment of absurdity has the crowd explode in relieved laughter. The easily offended should be aware that boundaries of taste are precision tested during the hour, but this is all part of Limmy's appeal.

Mixed with the humour of characterisations and video skits is the horror that Limmy is going to speak the unspeakable and show the un-showable: one dog sketch proves uncomfortable for most at four in the afternoon. Yet what is most entertaining about Limmy's Show is his talent for abstracting common place culture and giving it a unique twist: Reporting Scotland is placed under the microscope for a bizarrely sublime moment. With the ability to impress in all formats, Fringe audiences are unlikely to see anything as original as Limmy's troubled and vibrant mind.