Review – Afganistan is not Funny at the Underbelly

I did not quite know what to expect of this show. After all, who is it who thinks Afghanistan is funny anyway?
About 10 or so minutes into the show it occurred to me that what it was. It was a bloke in a pub, who’d been to Afghanistan, and who was a lovie, and who wanted to talk about it, very loudly. True, he had some impressive lovie celebrity names to drop: Hugh Grant, Russell Brand, jonathon Ross, the film director Stephen Frears and a couple more that I missed.
I never served in Afghanistan but I know a bunch of soldiers who did, some of them army photographers. They were out there a bit longer than a five-day fly in – gather some material for an Edinburgh Fringe show- fly out again visit. And more often than not, down at the pub, they refrain from talking about it, for the simple reason that Afghanistan is not funny.