Anna Burnside reviews a multi-layered and entertaining performance.
Glenn Moore has low self-esteem. This sits at the heart of this show, which has more layers than a multi-storey car park, yet is also contradicted by his unflinching delivery.
Believing comedians is a game for mugs.
To overcome his performance anxiety, Moore brings two books on stage. One contains 20 get-out-of-jail free jokes, ones that have gone gangbusters on TV and radio shows and that he will deploy when he senses the audience making a shopping list in their heads.
The second contains the worst joke he has ever written: a gag of career-ending dreadfulness.
These are both deployed throughout a show which wraps wordplay and quick-fire one-liners - hello, Typo the Clowm - into an elaborate shaggy dog story about a road trip through Death Valley with two cousins.
It then twists into his parenting insecurities, by way of a particularly clever joke about the pronunciation of Alnwick, where he went to the cinema to see John Wick.
There is also a brilliant bit about Catherine Parr and Henry VIII having sex on the floor of the gift shop.
The joke in book two is also on a Tudor theme. Spoiler alert - it has not ended his career. Far, far from it.
Glenn Moore: Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some More performs at the Pleasance Courtyard (Forth) at Pleasance Courtyard until August 24, 2025 (no performances on the 12th or 13th).
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