{"id":9233,"date":"2015-08-31T15:10:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2015-08-31T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:16:06","slug":"reviewing-the-reviewers-at-the-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/reviewing-the-reviewers-at-the-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing The Reviewers At The Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

With its tounge slightly in cheek, FringePig has award its first “ham-fisted” award for “the Fringe reviewer who most misunderstood what they were looking at.”?to The List’s Graeme Connelly for his review of Stuat Goldsmith’s show:<\/p>\n

Graeme wins for his stunning use of bathos. In his review of ‘Stuart Goldsmith: An Hour<\/em>‘ he worships at the feet of Goldsmith for several paragraphs, and then ends with three stars. It?s a simple formula, but a winning one. The funniest reviews are often the simplest. Connelly receives the staggering sum of ?50 which, we are told, can buy a very brief sensation of three-star pleasure if you know where to look. Mr Goldsmith wins ?200, which he hardly needs since he is, apparently, a glowing comedy adonis with the world at his three-star feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the ‘winning’ review for your pleasure<\/a>. Now, who’s reviewing the podcasters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With its tounge slightly in cheek, FringePig has award its first “ham-fisted” award for “the Fringe reviewer who most misunderstood what they were looking at.”?to The List’s Graeme Connelly for his review of Stuat Goldsmith’s show: Graeme wins for his stunning use of bathos. In his review of ‘Stuart Goldsmith: An Hour‘ he worships at the feet of Goldsmith for several paragraphs, and then ends with three stars. It?s a simple formula, but a winning one. The funniest reviews are often the simplest. Connelly receives the staggering sum of ?50 which, we are told, can buy a very brief sensation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Reviewing The Reviewers At The Fringe http:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2oV","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1839,25],"tags":[5216,5426,1844,380,5428,5429,3063,5427],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edinburgh-fringe-podcasting-multimedia","category-link-log","tag-5216","tag-award","tag-edfringe","tag-edinburgh-fringe","tag-fringe-pig","tag-hamfisted","tag-reviews","tag-the-list","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2oV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9235,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions\/9235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}