Sam Simmons – Man With A Fork In A World Full Of Soup @ The Factory At The Garden Of Unearthly Delights, Adelaide 16/2/2024

Sam Simmons, a hometown Adelaide boy, has become well known because of his many TV appearances both in Australia and overseas. His latest show is more free form, which is different from when I saw him at the last few Adelaide Fringes but Sam’s style has always invoked a deliberate awkwardness that keeps the audience laughing and on the edge of their seat. Some of the sketches were hilarious and the songs, although fewer in this show, were also very funny. Some of the highlights were the song which I would call The Wisdom of a Man. The bits with Sam conversing with dolls on sticks were also highly entertaining as well as his unorthodox observational humour. The song about wheat was hysterical.

Tonight was the first show of the run and was a work in progress, with Sam occasionally suggesting the removal of specific skits/songs that from his point of view don’t seem to work. He is on for the whole of this year’s Fringe so I expect a different show that has evolved by the end of the run and I would like to see him again towards the end of the Fringe.

I find Sam a very funny person and he can tell stories which you initially start to believe but then upon hearing the punchline, you realise it is just something he made up. For instance, he tells us “this is a true story” and starts to tell us how he met his wife until we realise the ending is impossible but yet priceless.

Sam has once again produced a highly entertaining show and I will continue to see Sam each time he performs at the Adelaide Fringe.

Fringe Review By Richard De Pizzol

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