The Scotsman

COMEDY

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Janeane Garofalo: Put A Pin In That

Gilded Balloon Teviot (Venue 14) Even flailing around, Janeane Garofalo is relatively entertaini­ng. But while attention deficit disorder perhaps explains her scatterbra­ined tendencies, and her show’s title is an appeal to bring her back to subjects she’s forgotten, this is a truly maddening hour for anyone not living inside her brain.

Her cultural references are all either local to her Edinburgh experience, American on a broad spectrum of obscurity or daytime UK television, alienating huge swathes of the internatio­nal crowd at any one time. Blithely assuming familiarit­y or distracted when offering context, she’s not apologetic enough for this hopelessly work-in-progress effort.

JAY RICHARDSON

Until 19 August. Today 9:15pm.

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