Jimmy McGhie

• Claire Sawers
• 25 August 2009

This article is from 2009.

Opening with his weakest material - crowd-repelling tartan, bagpipe and clansmen stereotypes, and watery anecdotes about teen drinking disasters - this English stand-up is on shaky, confusing ground until he settles into more successful, far funnier character comedy. His 'niche banter' rich kids and middle-class smugs have developed from previous Fringe appearances, but still have a ways to go.

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