Wednesday August 14th 2024
Written by Midlothian View Reporter, Liam Eunson
Richly Sheehy and Mark O’Keefe are at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe providing their late-night Irish craic in the mid-afternoon everyday at 2:45pm through their creative mix of dark stand-up and musical comedy, running on a pay what you can basis.
Playing in the old-timely pub, The Brass Monkey, just off Edinburgh’s Nicolson Street. The award-winning Irish duo filled out the pub’s side ‘cinema room’. The duo’s Mark O’Keefe provided satirical and controversial stand-up comedy from the get-go, making jokes at the crowd and getting to know the audience. His edgy style of comedy brought up topics, such as Epstein’s Island, making the drunken audience crushed into the small room of big square sofas and bar booths roar into laughter. Enraging with the crowd well he brought up close to home Scottish topics like the Glasgow Edinburgh rivalry which both tourists and locals in the room enjoyed.
Swapping with Richy Sheehy twice mid-show the second of the duo provided more comedy but in the form of parody’s of popular songs. Despite Richy’s audience interaction and jokes before the songs being just as good as his counterpart Mark, the comedic songs just weren’t on par with the quality of Mark’s stand-up.
Creatively adding a unique twist to a stand-up show, the song parody’s singing about BDSM, Epstein and posh areas in Edinburgh were cringe-worthy with a portion of a parody consisting of the comedian making weird noises. A drop in interest from the crowd was seen between the switch from stand-up to songs with the audience showing a clear interest towards Marks standup.
The amazing performance from Mark O’Keefe was ruined by the switch to Richy Sheehy’s comedic music, being a complete switch from the creative stand-up to cringe-worthy parody’s.
The award-winning Irish duo have been praised well in the comedy scene but there was a sense during the hour long show that Mark O’Keefe was of a different standard than Richy Sheehy. I recommend 2 guys 1 Pub for the entertaining
performance from Mark O’Keefe being worth a few cringe-worthy moments alone just for Mark’s performance.
4/5, recommend
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