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Andrew Silverwood: Love Thy Neighbour
4 stars out of 5
Stage 5, Acacia Hall, 10433 83 Ave.
Andrew Silverwood marches out on stage in a cassock and a mitre, setting the tone for his hour of standup. That tone, it turns out, is more of a ruse for hilarious show that features very little about religion.
The mitre comes off almost immediately and the cassock gets the boot about halfway through his show. This isn’t a show about Catholicism or even about religion generally. Silverwood talks about his family history and mentions his religion a few times, but otherwise it doesn’t feature as much as his promotional material or his pre-show crowd work might indicate.
It’s in fact a 60-minute show of high-energy comedy delivered at machine-gun speed and perfect timing. Silverwood is a British comedian by way of Australia, an actor with world-wide exposure and ambition making his way across the continent on his acting and comedy skills.
What he provides is fairly straightforward standup fair, the same thing you might see in an hourlong set at a comedy club. That isn’t to say it’s bad – far from it, this is some world-class standup that Fringe audiences are lucky to see. But there’s no twist here, no special angle for audiences looking for something different.
Silverwood is funny, there’s no doubt about that. He’s funny, he’s fast and he’s got a million-watt smile that lights up the room and the charm to keep that room eating from the palm of his hand. If you’re looking for some very funny standup you can’t go wrong with Andrew Silverwood.