(guitar music playing)
- From the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
It's Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net.
Taking some of the most fearless comics
from around the globe, outside their comfort zones.
- Creating stand-up comedy out of thin air on the spot,
under pressure and without any preparation whatsoever.
This is something else.
This is not what you'd normally see at a comedy show.
Most of the time not knowing
what you're doing is not fun in comedy,
but not knowing what you're doing is the show.
It is doing what stand-up is the art of pretending to do.
- The never before seen set list of Mitch Benn.
(crazy music)
- Good evening,
and welcome to, to Radio Four gone wild.
Uh.
(audience laughing)
That's pretty much the way it works.
(guitar strumming)
That's enough of rock 'n' roll.
(audience laughing)
(guitar playing)
♪ Come in ♪
♪ Yes come in ♪
♪ I said come in ♪
♪ Please come in ♪
♪ Won't you come in ♪
♪ Why don't you come in ♪
♪ Is there anybody there ♪
♪ Fuck sake come in ♪
♪ I said come in ♪
♪ Look, please come in ♪
♪ Open the door ♪
♪ Can't see anybody ♪
♪ There's just a bird ♪
♪ Is that what I heard ♪
♪ I heard a bird ♪
♪ It was just a bird ♪
♪ Go back to bed ♪
(audience applause)
(guitar strumming)
♪ Fuck 'em if they can't get out the way ♪
(audience laughing)
♪ I mean a car should see me coming ♪
♪ Fuck 'em if they're not paying attention ♪
♪ Fuck 'em if they don't know when to start running ♪
♪ Fuck 'em if they call an ambulance ♪
♪ I'm not sticking around here to find out ♪
♪ Fuck 'em if they die on the way to hospital ♪
♪ That's what being a pedestrian's about ♪
(audience laughing and applause)
(guitar strumming)
♪ Hi this is Bill ♪
♪ Bill this is Dave ♪
♪ Click, I'm sure you two will get along ♪
(laughter)
♪ Phil this is Pete ♪
♪ Pete this is Phil ♪
♪ Click, I'm sure you'll have plenty to talk about ♪
(laughter)
♪ Is there anybody left in here ♪
♪ Still unattached ♪
♪ Come over here Pete and John ♪
(audience laughing and applause)
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♪ I really hate it when you get those little red cards ♪
♪ Through your door, it's like they can't find your house ♪
♪ It's like they haven't got a head ♪
♪ They are just wondering instead ♪
♪ I really hate it when the mail doesn't turn up for days ♪
♪ It's like they have some kind of ♪
♪ Really spectacular handicap ♪
(laughter)
♪ Then I looked outta my window ♪
♪ And it was like Sleepy Hollow ♪
♪ Except I'm not Johnny Depp I'm just a guy waiting for post ♪
(audience laughter and applause)
(guitar strumming)
♪ No, the idea is not to dodge 'em ♪
♪ The idea is to hit them as hard as you can ♪
(laughter)
(guitar strumming)
♪ No, the idea is not to shoot the target ♪
♪ The idea is to shoot each other right in the fucking eye ♪
(laughter)
♪ Yes, you can go on the big wheel ♪
♪ But you don't get to sit down ♪
♪ You have to hang from your nipples ♪
♪ As it goes round and round ♪
♪ Because this is the S&M funfair, you see ♪
(audience applause)
Thank you, thank you.
(rocking electric guitar)
I wanna have little or no memory of anything I just did.
I think it sort of forms in your brain stem and rushes
right out of your mouth without actually
passing through the rest of your head at all.
But it's a great rush, it's a great rush.
I recommend it wholeheartedly to audience members.
I'd recommend it extremely wholeheartedly to comedians.
(funky music)