Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider) is playing in the Beside venue at 11.40am in The Pleasance Courtyard during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival until the 27th of August.
Falafel is a delightful bundle of energy from the moment you walk through the door, getting the audience in with gusto, engaging with both children and adults in order to grease the show up ready for the manic slide that is Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider).
A regular at the Fringe over the last few years, he has an infectious wackiness which the children immediately latch onto, and soon learn that they can engage with him on their most inquisitive and silly levels. He has a wonderful mixture of warmth and quick quips that land in that beautifully dual comedy plane that flies between creasing up the adults in the room as the children ever so slightly scratch their heads and utterly delighting the children with perfectly pitched humour.
I took an 8 year old who loved it and giggled from start to finish and a 2 year old who I would say was just a smidge too young. There were many children just a touch older than that who were completely enthralled with the show.
Falafel is consistently interactive with the audience (usually the youngest ones but occasionally a big one) coaxing them up onto the stage to help out with his is wonderful gameshow-esque challenges such as: Fishing for Insults, Sausage in my Bum Bag and of course the joy of drawing his patented bum-faced snail.
No doubt that much of this sounds like utter gobbledygook but that is absolutely part of the abstract wit and wonkiness that makes Olaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider) so enjoyable to experience.
After years of enduring the ‘humour’ of the moon-faced planks my daughter is exposed to via children’s TV. It’s wonderfully refreshing to see someone who is channelling the energy of Monty Python and Vic and Bob into presenting some children’s entertainment that really thrills.
