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A Brief History of Petty Crime

BY Sean Kelly Keenan   July 03, 2008 10:07

In this fast-paced, rollicking story of impotent rebellion and one youth’s disastrous run-in with the Karmic gods, UK comedian Jimmy Hogg takes on material worthy of the great Stephen Hawkins himself: the chaotic, morally ambiguous quagmire of a drug-addled adolescent mind. Poised on the precipice of death, with his car in mid-roll, our protagonist experiences a series of self-examining flashbacks, often to hilarious effect. The monologue is somewhat clichéd and flat in spots, but Hogg’s professionally poised performance and hysterically funny ad-libbed audience interactions still deliver more than a few good belly laughs. Altogether, this show is Fringe comedy gold.

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