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Killing Granny: Help fund deadly funny free comedy
Brentford, Greater London, United Kingdom
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Help Phil's new comedy variant lay waste to Edinburgh. This show is contagious! It's deadly funny! Become a super spreader of laughter!
KILLING GRANNY: A COMEDY SHOW TO DIE FOR. BECOME A SUPER SPREADER OF LAUGHTER...
Phil Zimmerman's show boldly sticks its head above the parapet of the official covid narrative to unite people through waves of mirth. It's the best medicine! Is it the second wave, is it the 3rd? In all this excitement, we've lost count... Help fund the full Edinburgh run of the 2022 variant of Killing Granny - your contribution can help it spread like wildfire from the new OMNi verse venue on Greenside Row. They're just putting the walls up now! And the roof! Just in time to lay waste to nonsense and double speak.
Support the comedy revolution! Boost immunity to lies with laughter! It's the best party in town!
"No one in the country is doing a show like this," says Phil. "No one else has the balls."
PHIL ZIMMERMAN is a comedian, TV and film actor, singer/songwriter, Buddhist peace activist and founder member of the One-Legged Pigeon Appreciation Society.
His inimitable, high-energy off-the-wall physical comedy, along with some great original songs, enjoyed a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2021. This was followed by appearances at the Leicester Comedy Festival and Brighton Fringe this year, and Phil now brings the 2022 variant of the show back to Edinburgh with a full run at the Omni Centre from August 6- 28. (Not 15th, 22nd).
A whirlwind of satire and clowning, Killing Granny mocks authoritarianism and the Orwellian absurdities of recent times.
“The time is right for this show now,|” he says. “People are really ready to laugh at the ridiculousness of what we have been through in the last few years.And that is a powerful and very positive thing considering the amount of censorship we’ve been living under and the amount of division and fear that's been created. No one else is doing a show like this in the UK.|”
It’s a natural progression from 2018’s Edinburgh offering 67 Arseholes, an off-the-wall mix of physical comedy, and observational tirades directed against establishment lies and corruption, a riotous rant against a world gone bonkers.
In 2020, Phil had been booked to do the follow up to that, 143 arseholes, before you-know-what struck.
“I was very disappointed when 143 arseholes was cancelled,” he says. But he was one of the few who quickly seized the opportunity to perform at what turned out to be a unique Fringe last year after the Scottish government relaxed the distancing rules late in the day.
“Committing to it with all the uncertainty, was a bit of a risk, but I like to take a chance, otherwise what’s the point?” he says.
Phil took his chance on the big screen with his feature film debut as a 15th century axe murdering chicken farmer, in the critically acclaimed Independent film The Scopia Effect in 2012, and has since been making headway playing a motley crew of villains in spooky castles and forests - his biggest role to date being Rufus Sorghum, one of the main nasties in Tim Burton’s remake of Disney’s Dumbo (2019) in which he had scenes with Danny Devito and Colin Farrell.
Yet he is still recognised more as a result of his legendary appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks which earned him cult status as a stiff, psychotic, staring character who didn’t move or speak. Here's a sketch based ion that character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wevfC38RMU
It was a natural progression - or regression - from Pigeonman, an extraordinary mix of stand-up, mime and clowning which tore up many rooms in the early noughties as well as occasionally falling flat on its face in flurry of feathers.
His latest show seeks to unite people whatever their views may. “Whatever you think about lockdowns, masks, or the injections, we have all experienced the same kind of crazy stuff,” says Phil.
Here is an excerpt from a review of the show by Basil Valentine on 21st century Wire:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/05/31/review-phil-zimmerman-in-killing-granny/
“Very much in Phil’s favour is that he is a naturally funny man. His asides to the audience bring some of the biggest laughs and break the third wall to reassure us that he is human after all. Not only does he have the confidence and experience to hold the audience’s attention for the full hour, but also to take them with him on a journey through the nonsense of the last two years – before we all forget.
“The audience is very much part of the show, and a willingness to join in the fun helps. Phil’s enthusiasm is infectious, and his message is on point; nowhere more in evidence than in the rousing finale song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgj9ueVKYn8
" If you see Killing Granny advertised anywhere go and see it. It’ll definitely make you laugh, and you might well learn something too. Highly recommended.”
This project successfully funded on 30th August 2022