Comedy review: Adam Larter: Happy New Year - A Free Comedy Show, Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House (Venue 69), Edinburgh

DESCRIBED in the brochure as “absurdist” this is just that. Great fun emerges from utter chaos. But that is often the way at New Year.

By KATE COPSTICK

Published 11th Aug 2012, 18:22 BST

Adam Larter: Happy New Year – A Free Comedy Show

Laughing Horse @ Captain Taylor’s Coffee House (venue 69)

Star rating: * *

There are flashes of genius – Larter’s “bagpipe” playing, the extraordinary firework display he treats us to and his picture book “Velvet Underground Go To The Dentist”, first in a series of rock band-based children’s literature. He also does a fair impression of a lonely Andy Parsons. If you like kittens, you might want to avert your eyes from the Exploding Kittens section. Silly, Free Fringey fun.

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