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Speech Is Not Needed For Laughs - Leicester Mercury Review
Most people would say that to be a comedian, you have to use your voice.
Lost Voice Guy walked into the room, and his iPad greeted us by simply stating ‘I have a slight disability’.
Right away it was apparent this was going to be a completely light-hearted show, hosted by a comedian who doesn’t take himself - or his disability - seriously at all.
Lee Ridley, the genius behind Lost
Voice Guy, suffers from Cerebral Palsy. In Lee’s case, this means he
cannot physically speak.
However this doesn’t not hold any barriers for the 33-year-old. He uses his disability not to make us, the audience, feel sorry for him, but to join him in laughter.
Lee tells us tales of his experiences from everyday situations such as the problems occurred when ringing Babestation, to the more serious time of what happened when he was taken to hospital for pneumonia when he was meant to be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
‘At least I now know how to spell pneumonia’ he quips, which made the room erupt with laughter.
Lost Voice Guy is a refreshing act to see. He provides the kind of comedy which is needed these days - nothing too serious, and holding back no barriers on disability, making Lee different from your typical stand-up comedian.
Take a bow, Lost Voice Guy. You may not be able to speak but your quick-wit and light-hearted routine certainly left me speechless.
Published in the Leicester Mercury, February 2014
However this doesn’t not hold any barriers for the 33-year-old. He uses his disability not to make us, the audience, feel sorry for him, but to join him in laughter.
Lee tells us tales of his experiences from everyday situations such as the problems occurred when ringing Babestation, to the more serious time of what happened when he was taken to hospital for pneumonia when he was meant to be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
‘At least I now know how to spell pneumonia’ he quips, which made the room erupt with laughter.
Lost Voice Guy is a refreshing act to see. He provides the kind of comedy which is needed these days - nothing too serious, and holding back no barriers on disability, making Lee different from your typical stand-up comedian.
Take a bow, Lost Voice Guy. You may not be able to speak but your quick-wit and light-hearted routine certainly left me speechless.
Published in the Leicester Mercury, February 2014
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Replacements Play Their Trump Cards - Leicester Mercury Review
As it hit the time for the show to start, a voice out of nowhere asked the audience to sit forward a few seats.
Everyone, it seemed, thought this was odd. However, what happened next was not expected.
Mr Methane, the renowned performing flautist, who was meant to be, ahem, playing tonight, had, for whatever reason decided to blow the gig out.
Everyone, it seemed, thought this was odd. However, what happened next was not expected.
Mr Methane, the renowned performing flautist, who was meant to be, ahem, playing tonight, had, for whatever reason decided to blow the gig out.
In his place and at the 11th hour, up stepped Bob Slayer, the event organiser who had decided the show must go on.
After
explaining what had happened, Bob was joined by Tim Fitzhigham.
Together they patched together an impressive impromptu show of tales,
misfortunes and laughs.
It wasn’t what we had expected, but it was something which you could not have imagined would happen.
Bob even demonstrated what Mr Methane would do if he were there - so you could even say we even got a little taste, if that’s the right word, of his act.
The show, as you could imagine, was completely unpredictable, we heard a complete mixture of stories, with one person even telling us the tale of meeting his long last Dad.
All this made for a delightful evening, because instead of being a show based on a script it was actually a cosy little chat where the audience came together laughing from start to finish.
It felt like you actually got to know fellow members of the audience.
It might not have been Mr Methane, but Bob and Tim came up trumps and saved the show. Bravo.
Published in the Leicester Mercury, February 2014
It wasn’t what we had expected, but it was something which you could not have imagined would happen.
Bob even demonstrated what Mr Methane would do if he were there - so you could even say we even got a little taste, if that’s the right word, of his act.
The show, as you could imagine, was completely unpredictable, we heard a complete mixture of stories, with one person even telling us the tale of meeting his long last Dad.
All this made for a delightful evening, because instead of being a show based on a script it was actually a cosy little chat where the audience came together laughing from start to finish.
It felt like you actually got to know fellow members of the audience.
It might not have been Mr Methane, but Bob and Tim came up trumps and saved the show. Bravo.
Published in the Leicester Mercury, February 2014
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