Rare Birds Entertainment - Edinburgh, Shows 2008

Intelligent, twisted, dark and very funny. Stuart Black's solo show is a provocative and heart-warming look at life. "Skilful delivery... one to watch." chortle.co.uk "Warm, engaging and dangerously funny." Rip it Up Magazine, Adelaide

Further info:
www.paleandconfused.co.uk

Pale and confused is Stuart Black�s state of mind and the state of mind of a generation. Pale and Confused received rave reviews at the Adelaide Fringe this year:

�Warm, engaging, and dangerously funny.� Rip it up magazine Adelaide

��extremely bright, very wicked, very in your face wit�� DB Magazine

�Stuart Black takes on the down side of ordinary life and its infuriating issues and turns them into something all it once shocking, amazing, impossible and fantastic...� David O�brien DBMagazine
��skilful delivery, matched with a care in choosing his language and imagery�

Stuart can be seen on series five of The World Stands Up for Paramount Comedy One in the UK and Comedy Central in the US. Stuart also appeared on Stand Up Australia � live from the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

In addition to performing hundreds of live stand-up gigs in 2007, Stuart wrote three sketches for Hat-Trick Productions (the producers of Have I Got News For You). Stuart also co-wrote and produced a weeky live topical quiz called �This Week on Earth�, which ran in Hammersmith every Wednesday for 40 weeks.

Stuart also came third in the 2007 Laughing Horse New Act competition, an award which has allowed him to play many leading venues including The Comedy Store, Glee club and Frog & Bucket

REVIEWS (Melbourne Comedy Festival 2008)
�It has already been said of Black's work that he's got a wonderful thing for visual imagery and I happily affirm this to be so. It's been ages since I've laughed so hard from the impact of a funny sentence doubled in power by outrageously fabulist pictures popping into my mind.
When Black describes his presence cross-legged on a beach as looking like an albino frog - that's a hard image to loose!
Mr Black is indeed pale and confused but in a quietly aware way that disguises his extremely bright, very wicked, very in your face wit. As he sips a beer or two he seems so quietly unassuming until the stories start coming out and the images... what a lovely thought it was to ponder on - the average wage being the Bill Gates wealth level, thus leaving David Beckham below the poverty line! Even more shocking to contemplate; the joys of wine involving asbestos, guns, asthma inhalers plus alcohol and as for Sting and tantric sex... I won't spoil it!
Black takes on the down side of ordinary life and its infuriating issues and turns them into something all it once shocking, amazing, impossible and fantastic... but remains wonderfully ever perplexed, pale and confused.� David O'Brien - DB Magazine

Pale And Confused
The Griffins Head Hotel, Sun Feb 24
�Stuart Black is pale and confused� and very, very funny. In his relaxed and easy manner, he tackles topics as diverse as animal courtship, long haul flights, poverty and even religion with intelligence and insight. Warm, engaging and dangerously funny, Black also manages to blindside his audience more than a few times with some powerful and ever so slightly political observations that are as thought-provoking as they are hilarious. This highly likeable young Englishman deserves to make a big name for himself � catch him now so you can say, �I saw him before he was famous�. � Hannah Pick - Rip it Up Magazine