Skinner’s frank and funny outlook on life

7:55am Thursday 18th October 2007

Frank Skinner, St George's Hall

With a wink in his eye and a glint from his recently-acquired gold tooth, the cheeky West Brom boy gets away with just about everything.

And when I say everything, I mean everything, and most of it below the belt.

Much of Frank Skinner's stand-up show was dedicated to his sexual experiences, if you'll excuse the pun.

The former Fantasy Football presenter also picked on Paul McCartney, horses and obese children.

And as with any good stand-up, the audience was also in the firing line, especially one woman who had a bizarre laugh which sounded like a seagull.

The highlight for me was a 1940s Flanagan and Allen-style song called O-O-O-O-Osama Bin Laden, accompanied by Frank on the ukulele.

This is the first time in a decade that Frank has performed live, but his show is as fresh as he was in the mid-Nineties, when he was selling out national tours and playing record-breaking 6,000-seater gigs.

Fun-time-Frankie left every member of this Bradford audience shouting for more.

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