A break-up is one of the most heart-breaking things anyone can go through in their life. However, some people take it as an inspiration and that’s what Sara Pascoe has done in creating her show LadsLadsLads.
‘LadsLadsLads’ what an unusual name I thought for a show performed by a female comedian. However it's the lads in her life that gave Sara Pascoe the material for her show - telling the audience a bit too much about her private life.
During the course of the evening we hear tales of Pascoe’s family, her dating history and her dislike of Siamese twins. She comes across as a bit ditzy and scatty, but I reckon that’s all part of her delivery style. Following a break-up Pascoe shared her experience of going on a yoga retreat in Costa Rica - which she thought was in Spain, and wasn’t prepared for the long haul flight. Where she told stories about the women who were also on the retreat and the scary noises animals in the jungle made while plotting your murder. Pascoe explained she is fed up of people asking ‘why is she single’ or ‘is she dating anyone’. She believes we entered this world alone and we leave alone. She said humans are ‘peperamis’, ‘we're not twixes’. She also spoke about how she went to Paris on her own for Valentine’s Day.
Despite having been in numerous relationships Pascoe has only ever been on two dates; one which wanted to take her to the theatre so she blew him out minutes before they were supposed to meet and the second was an 83 year old man ‘who ran out of battery’ during one of her gigs.
Being an eldest sister Pascoe explained how she always loved attention - she would even get presents at her siblings' birthdays so she wouldn't ruin them. She also explained how she gets jealous at funerals because she isn't the centre of attention. However this craving for attention doesn't match with her on-stage persona. She came across as quite scatty and often stumbled over what she is about to say next. This slightly awkward delivery of her material made certain jokes more funny. You would never expect her to make jokes about incest and men vomiting inside her - but she did.
Her impression of her friend Aisling Bea was so awful it was hilarious. Which did lead her on to material about the show First Dates and how she disliked how women expected to be treated equally, but never offer to pay their share of the bill when on a date.
For her final gag she told the story about when she bought a vibrator that came with a Wi-Fi connection so the company could sell-on customers data. Through this she was able to summarise everything she spoke about earlier. Whether I liked that or not I'm still a bit unsure about. I like comedy to appear spontaneous, whereas this felt a bit rehearsed. She also joked about how she wore the same Marks & Spencer's underwear as her ex-boyfriend’s mother, with the frilly ends that would hide rogue pubic hair. She then went on to how she would embarrass her then boyfriend by making reference to it.
Unfortunately during Pascoe’s set there were audience members speaking quite loudly in the front row. Understandably Pascoe was quite put off by this and told them off for it like a school teacher would tell off disruptive pupils. Given that this was a comedy show I think Pascoe had opportunity to make it humorous, however her approach just made it awkward for everyone involved.
Normally when people go through break-ups they write songs or poems, however Pascoe has created a stand-up comedy routine that proves that laughter is the best medicine for her broken heart.
Reviewer - Brian Madden
on - 24/10/18
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