Scott Capurro – Yankee Dog-Pig
The Stand
When Scott Capurro opens with the innocent line “Have you read the Qur’an?” you have two choices – run for the hills or sit back, enjoy and be damned for
all time. Mind you, as a beleaguered (mainly by lesbians) gay man, Capurro’s a great believer in equal opps, so Jews, Christians (er, make that Catholics) and George Bush’s satanic family all fall under his satirical blade.
He is sleeker and wittier than ever before and there can be few comics who make an art of insulting their audience while simultaneously seducing them. What else would make you sit for an hour and laugh as if it’s the most natural thing in the world to learn that Capurro misses the days when Aids killed you quickly, disarmingly admits to stalking a cute member of the previous night’s audience, or wonders if Bush plays Blair like a puppet because he has a photo of the PM porking a pig.
There are few lines that Capurro hasn’t crossed but even he seemed pleasantly pleased with himself after blurting out a graphic guide to Tom Cruise’s bedtime habits (you really don’t want to know), the undeniable attraction of all those naked bodies piled up in Abu Ghraib jail, or how he once found great comfort in the quadriplegia of ex-Superman Christopher Reeve. Essential if squirm-making viewing.