Review by Steve Bennett

Review

Although this is his second year on the Fringe, you could not really call Tony Littler a Fringe act.

He performed a song about Paul McCartney's soon-to-be-ex-wife Heather:
'I've got nothing against her right leg, but neither has she,' he sang. Well, if you're going to steal, steal from the best

I have nothing against Tony either. A Laughing Horse new act finalist, he is a perfectly standard, jobbing comedy singer who presumably makes a good living on the folk/pub circuit with perfectly presentable if occasionally non-PC parody songs set to good (though copyrighted) music.

There was not an original tune in the 60-minute show but here in a small upstairs room on the outer edges of the increasingly large Free Fringe, no one is going to object at being shortchanged.

He bills himself as being rude, very non-PC and outrageous but I suspect this is only a correct description of any performances to the Women's Institute in Leamington Spa. He is unlikely ever to be a star, but he should make steady money in clubs and pubs.

John Fleming

Review date: 1 Jan 2006
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett