Fresh from writing and starring in his acclaimed RTE sitcom Good Boy, Ireland’s second-best comedian Tony Cantwell brings his hilarious show You Cry Weird to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
What makes you cry and what does that say about you?
TONY CANTWELL:
YOU CRY WEIRD
Jersey at Underbelly, Bristo Square
17th-30th August at 10pm
Tony has cried for some wild reasons over the years. This is his big swing to figure out why! Why did he set a kid’s bike on fire when I was eleven? Why did a compliment about his knob in school make me cry? And why did watching Bluey make him cry harder than any other point in his life?
You Cry Weird is the story of what happens when a grown man bursts into tears on an old treadmill in front of fourteen and a half straight men, and what he discovered when he started therapy the next day.
In this frantic, brutally honest, and hilariously unhinged hour, Tony takes audiences on a wild ride through his chaotic subconscious. Journey along as he navigates his days as an 11-year-old bird-of-paradise setting a bully’s bike on fire with Lynx Africa, a “ghost attack” in a shoe shop stockroom that left him deeply traumatised, and an emotional cry with his mother in a Nissan Micra…over his knob.
You Cry Weird is a deep and dumb search for identity that proves masculinity is fragile, childhood grudges are forever, and how running and talking to your friends may be catastrophic for your mental health.
Tony said:‘Yeow! I’m back at the Edinburgh Fringe! For the first time in 7 years. Actually. since my kid was conceived there. It’s been a busy few years since then. I wrote and starred in Good Boy for RTÉ. I appeared on Last One Laughing Ireland on Amazon Prime, and even had Graham Norton say my sexy cat dance was one of the funniest things he’d ever seen. Then I cried in an attic on a treadmill at a lad’s night and had to go to therapy.’
Comments are closed.