Still Got It!

Review by David Middleton

The Pilgrim Pub on Cowgate, which during the Festival is part of the Free Fringe, has set up various curtained-off areas, behind which comedy happens. I have come to see a group of three comedians, that I respectfully estimate to be close to pensionable age, who are performing under the moniker ‘Still Got It’.

We are welcomed by Lissi Corfield, who declares herself to be the MC. She tells us that she has always been very shy, but at the age of 59 decided to try her hand at stand-up comedy, as an antidote. After a few engaging anecdotes she handed the floor to a Scottish comic named Andrew Thompson who stated that he identified as a potato and proceeded to entertain us with a few cerebral and at times surreal stories before finally settling on safer ground by regaling us with various anecdotes of a sexual nature.

Lissi then returned and proceeded to host a brief and simple quiz with a generous array of chocolates given as prizes. She then introduced the final comic, Georgia Thorpe who made some colourful and amusing observations about family and life as a self-confessed happily married Greek Cypriot lesbian.

The content of this show may be too distant and gentle for a younger audience today, but as I identified age-wise with these performers I found the experience to be pleasantly informal, warm and relaxed, almost cosy, as if one were part of a convivial family Christmas with your favourite uncle liberally sprinkling jokes and stories around the room. They will be performing throughout the Fringe.