Rare Birds Entertainment - Edinburgh, Shows 2007

Marketing the Un-marketable.
Billions of pounds are wasted every year advertising and marketing products that nobody buys. With your help Roland Gent demonstrates how to make up a campaign, while revealing remarkable tales of business failure.

Can you come up with better adverts than some of the rubbish you see on the TV? Of course you can!

By day Roland works as a marketing manager, giving him an insight into remarkable tales of business failure, and making him possibly the UK comedy circuit�s leading expert on pies and bread related snacks.

By night he�s up and down the comedy circuit, he always really wanted to have a radio show like John Peel, but at one point ended up slaughtering chickens for a living, so maybe marketing isn�t so bad after all.

�Outstandingly silly� Leicester Mercury

Roland �s 2006 Edinburgh show was a two-hander with fellow comic Martin Cassidy

Best Laid Plans - �Daringly different!� (Edinburgh Festival Website)

REVIEW: I saw this show twice whilst I was in Edinburgh because the show was so great the first time I didn't think they could follow it up. The show I saw had them taking ideas from the audience and taking it to an extreme. They had one guy who was sitting near me who wanted to be a porn star and very quickly the whole audience (yes, I found myself joining in!) was shouting out ideas, trying to be more disgusting than the previous suggestion! This was not highbrow stuff but it was hilarious and to be fair to the guys they were only working with what the audience gave them. It was a riot, very funny and a refreshing change from the over polished 'observational' stuff that there is all too much of at the Fringe.
The second time I caught the show the guys seemed to have ditched the improv element and did about 30mins each of stand up, which was of a high standard, but I was disappointed not to be as involved as the previous show. Perhaps they have ditched the improv altogether or perhaps they were just having a break for one night, I do hope its the latter. The improv was daring and innovative and what the Fringe is all about. Had they recreated the atmosphere of the first show I would have given them 5 *'s with no hesitation. Though the stand up stuff was good I'm going to give them 4*'s. One of the most memorable shows at this years Fringe. Thanks guys!

21 Aug 2006 4 Stars, reviewer: Maxwell Tillbrook, United Kingdom

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