Meet The Fringepig Team...Billy Coconuts

Unemployed postgrad Billy Coconuts was the sort of reviewer-reviewer who signs up for the job brimming with enthusiasm.

Then, a few days into the Reviewer Fringe, he was always huffing and tutting and snorting and turning up glue-eyed to review the reviewers halfway though their review, while talking on his phone and eating a stovie.

Now he’s done a bit of celeb reviewing and thinks he should get a Pullitzer or something.

If you’re a reviewer, Billy may not read all your reviews before forming an unimpeachable opinion of your talents. In fact, he may only read one sentence before going back to bed, but he’s sure you can pretty much assess a person’s whole life and character by one small thing they once did or said and, anyway, he was in a band once that didn’t really get anywhere.

So you can hardly blame him for having a chip on his shoulder, or believing that everyone except him is a dick.


Reviews filed by Billy Coconuts

Jess Duxbury

It’s passing strange that, at the 2013 Fringe, the comedian Sarah Campbell was reviewed in two different publications by reviewers ...

Sean Bell

Just how hard is it to please Sean Bell? Well, take his review for Jonny and the Baptists: “None [of ...

Shiv Das

Oh for fuck’s fucking sake. Shiv Das gives five stars to almost everything. While it’s all well and good to ...

Sam Bradley

Sam Bradley commits some of the usual sins of the BB coterie, not least frequent slips of grammar and baggy ...

Roberta Thomson

In her review of The Little Wheel Sketch Show, Roberta Thomson complains that it was loud, aggressive and over the ...

Richard Speir

It’s never easy trying to reviewer a reviewer who has reviewed precisely one comedy show in their entire life. Apart ...

Neil Ballinger

“These lads are funny!” That’s what Neil Ballinger could have said about The Noise Next Door. Instead we get “All ...

Nadia Brooks

“A young lad with a winsome demeanour entered the room and high-fived everyone in the audience. Immediately I liked him.” ...

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