Camden Fringe: Scott Capurro Goes Deeper
6th August 2009 until 8th August 2009 – 9 pm,
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
If you’ve seen Scott Capurro before you’ll find it hard not to laugh on learning that this Camden Fringe show at the Roundhouse is entitled Goes Much Deeper. That, you see, is what the gay San Francisco comic does. He likes to probe. And ask questions other people don’t dare: Are kids ever really missing? Does swine flu prove the Jews are right? When will Obama wipe off the make-up? Are we using the death penalty in Texas on the right people? Charmingly uncouth, rip-roaringly camp and unflinchingly provocative, Capurro has certainly toned down a notch since being banned on Australian airwaves for “polluting minds” – but only a little. He’s still “vaingloriously poisonous” (The Scotsman) so much so that even The Mirror recently labelled him “evil” and called for his extradition. Audiences find themselves insulted and seduced in equal measure and you may at first laugh out of pure discomfort. But by the end you should appreciate the endearing, nay avuncular side of much of Capurro’s often important work, which indeed goes much deeper than mere shock value.