Article: STRAIGHT MAN ROLLINS' STAND UP IS COUNTED

COMEDY

HENRY ROLLINS QUEEN'S HALL ****

IT was difficult to know what to expect from this evening, saddled with the rather pretentious sounding subtitle "an evening of the spoken word."

What we got was, for the most part, a marathon two and a quarter hours that consisted of some absolutely superb stand up comedy from a true polymath.

Rollins defies being pigeonholed as a talent. He's a musician, author, actor, comedian and raconteur. On stage, he's a tightly knotted ball of energy, microphone clenched in his fist like a

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