The Hour

Comedian Al Pitcher is back in Scotland with his unusual tour which bases its content around pictures captured in the city or town of performance.

The show, ‘The Al Pitcher Picture Show’, was created after the Kiwi born comedian decided his favourite kind of humour derived from the mundane things in life. He was inspired to base his show on local pictures after repeatedly getting a negative reaction from the UK audience about their local area.

“Everywhere I have been in the world, I have gone to places and said ‘what’s it like here and they go brilliant’,” he said. “But anywhere I go in the UK, I go on stage and I say ‘what’s it like here’ and they say ‘rubbish’ so I am showing them how great their place is.

“I go into each city of where I am performing and I take photos and then I show the photos on the night.”

While performing in Scotland, Pitcher captured a tourist in Glasgow trying to work out directions with a map of Edinburgh and also found it funny to see the headline ’18,000 potholes in city roads’ on a Glasgow paper stand, wondering who exactly went round counting them.

This kind of observational humour is a big hit with comedy lovers at the moment with the likes of Peter Kay and Michael McIntyre also feeding into this area.

“I have just tried to capture what people’s lives are like because we are in weird times and it is quite nice to show them how brilliant their life is,” Pitcher explained.

“The idea is to live life and not get behind the camera. There is that thing where you take the photo and people now look at the screen and come up and say ‘oh, delete it, I look stupid’ and you say ‘no, that’s what you look like, that’s you’.”

Al Pitcher will be performing in Dundee on Wednesday November 17. For more information, visit www.alpitcher.com