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Article: STRAIGHT MAN ROLLINS' STAND UP IS COUNTED
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- November 25, 1999
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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