Live Performance Review: Rhod Gilbert: The Man With The Flaming Battenberg Tattoo (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Wednesday 15.08.2012 19:40, The Auditorium, Edinburgh International Conference Centre (Unreserved Seating), Edinburgh 

I saw Rhod two years ago doing the 'And The Cat That Looked Like...' show, which I greatly enjoyed, though did not feel it quite compared to 'And The Award Winning Mince Pie', which regrettably I only managed to see on DVD. This felt like a return to the previous high standard of absurdest hilarity. It is good to hear from Rhod that he has got to a point of being able to recognise his centrality to the creating of his anger/confrontations, and that he now feels that he is making progress and able to laugh at things that would make him boil in the past. The show goes through a period of him having anger management and major life happenings occurring, that contributed towards his being able to now acknowledge his own pettiness.

The 'device' of the anger management diary helped his being able to appear to have cause to recount incidents such as his encounter with the 'travel chef' on the early morning Cardiff to London train. The communication he was having to engage with was quite believable, though inanely absurd to the degree of feeling like classic farce. This, as with most of the show I did find to be highly chucklesome. It was a highly enjoyable show, though did not feel to have much to last in the brain long after, unlike a couple of flawless comedy shows I saw very recently. Just shy of perfect, though I will now give consideration to carrying a potato with me on my travels.

Rating: 09/10.