Saturday, May 06, 2006

Well done that B'stard

On Thursday night, myself and a fellow student went to the Bristol Hippodrome to partake in an evening of merriment and mirth.
We were there to see the latest performance by Rik Mayall (aka Alan B'stard) in The New Statesman; The Blair B'stard Project.
Now as we went I scanned the rest of the audience, a good general mix of young, not so young, not so old and oap's. (Not so old being Middle Aged- I just cant be bothered to justify myself.)

Seeing that we had a good mix of the population of Bristol in the theatre, I occurred to me that the one thing that I shouldn't be expecting was Bottomesque language. This was quickly shattered when within the 2 minutes of the play, the opening line was 'That bloody bu..ering b*@t!rd has done it again!" So guess what the rest of it was like.

The best bits: Tony Blair gets kidnapped; America invades Norway - With their top Desert Troops; B'stard takes over the Labour Party; Someone blows themselves up; Someone else gets blown up; and B'stard finally has his way with his secretary.
The whole thing ends with the soliloquy: "Well not a bad days work really, I got Condoleeza off my back, Flora on her back... And Habibbi, well he just went all over the f!*king place. You were right Tony, things can only get better; Now that B'STARD is in charge!"

So after 2 encores and 4 lots of Mayall bowing on his own to raptuous applause we set off, stopping quickly to purchase a programme and two B'stard rosettes. Well we weren't going to buy them is the play was crap were we?

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