Homepage News Reviews - Acts - Shows - Screen - Radio - Books - Clubs Interviews Awards 2006 Edinburgh 2005 - Reviews - Blog - Previews Features Archive Awards 2005 Edinburgh 2004: - Previews - Shows - Diary Guestbook Forum © Emporium Of Mirth 2004 Editor: Lauren Murphy Reporters: Fiona Wilkie Natalie Joanne	Emporium of Mirth Ross Noble Within seconds of taking the stage, Ross Noble has gone through about three different subjects and anecdotes, making it quite difficult for this reviewer to keep up. It's ok, though, for he soon apologises for his strange and random line of thought, stating he's like an "ADD kid who's discovered a stash of Sunny Delight". His extreme pace and genial manner mean the audience are enraptured throughout, and though Noble's attention waivers wildly from shortbread to pubic hair to daytime TV to crackers and back to shortbread, the audience are hanging off his every word. The secret of this isn't only his fast pace, it is his actually his inability to finish a story in one go; his tangents, though often even funnier than the end of his story, serve to keep the audience gripped, hungry for another morsel of the anecdote he whetted their appetite with earlier in the show. Again, Noble utilises his audience to the full, from interacting with a small boy to overseeing the passing of a package of shortbread donated by an audience member during the interval, Noble manages to send up his audience without ever patronising or insulting them. He clearly appreciates his audience, hell, he even wants them to have some biscuits, which almost makes the audience feel like they're sitting amongst a group of acquaintances being brought together by a mutual friend. Despite Ross' apparent attention deficit disorder, he does manage to bring all his loose ends together with what feels like a final flourish of a pen crossing his comedy "Ts". Ross Noble is wowing audiences in The Apollo theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue throughout September. for more details visit Ross' official site Reviewed by Lauren RSS  Printable version	Visit our Siamese Twin Sister Site!