{"id":52998,"date":"2018-08-07T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/07\/lost-voice-guy-review-self-lacerating-comedy-with-something-to-say\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:47:43","slug":"lost-voice-guy-review-self-lacerating-comedy-with-something-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52998","title":{"rendered":"Lost Voice Guy review \u2013 self-lacerating comedy with something to say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gilded Balloon, EdinburghBritain\u2019s Got Talent winner Lee Ridley combines the political and personal with razor-sharp observations about disability\u2018If you expect me to be that sweet and innocent tonight, you\u2019re in a for a big surprise.\u201d And so Lee Ridley greets his audience \u2013 those wooed by his winning stint as Lost Voice Guy on the recent run of Britain\u2019s Got Talent \u2013 in a tiny garret room at the Edinburgh fringe, booked before fame came calling. His new show, Inspiration Porn, is more political \u2013 and more vulnerable \u2013 than anything you would expect to see on the same TV programme as Simon Cowell. It is a distinctive mix of barbed disability comedy and the kind of self-mocking humour that Hannah Gadsby, with her Netflix hit Nanette, has recast in a troubling new light.There were times, in other words, that I felt saddened by how ruthless Ridley is with himself onstage \u2013 his disability (Ridley has cerebral palsy and is unable to speak), supposed unattractiveness and low self-esteem. But that is his prerogative, and certainly fits with his show\u2019s rejection of the inspirational rhetoric that surrounds high-achieving disabled people. In the \u201cposh old man\u201d tones of his voice synthesiser \u2013 the unorthodox comic timing takes some adjusting to \u2013 he contrasts inspirational quotes and \u201cyes we can\u201d Paralympic mottos with the realities of his own life: lazy, lonely, he tells us, and \u201cshit at everything\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2018\/aug\/07\/lost-voice-guy-review-lee-ridley-britains-got-talent-edinburgh-gilded-balloon\" target=\"_blank\">Lost Voice Guy review \u2013 self-lacerating comedy with something to say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilded Balloon, EdinburghBritain\u2019s Got Talent winner Lee Ridley combines the political and personal with razor-sharp observations about disability\u2018If you expect me to be that sweet and innocent tonight, you\u2019re in a for a big surprise.\u201d And so Lee Ridley greets his audience \u2013 those wooed by his winning stint as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}