Comedy: Rosie Wilby – The Science of Sex

Date: August 25th, 2009 Author: Martin Walker
Category(s): Comedy: Rosie Wilby – The Science of Sex
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Comedy
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Rosie Wilby – The Science of Sex
Sweet Grassmarket

A rather pretty teenage boy in the queue asks his mate if Rosie Wilby is really a lesbian.  “She’s too girly,” he explains, “she must be bisexual”.  Rather than dismiss this idiot, several soon-to-be audience members set about debating the issue.  Horrified, but also aware that I actually have no idea where Wilby sits on the Kinsey Scale, I stay silent.  The show is called The Science of Sex, so perhaps the subject will come up.

Rosie, it turns out, is a rather attractive, and newly single lesbian.  She’s also a character comedian, and here we’re presented with a nutty professor persona, which is just subtle enough to avoid the usual stereotype.  Using diagrams and pretty pictures, she jokes about sex with surprisingly few obvious knob (or indeed, fanny) gags.

Although clearly well researched and written, she isn’t afraid of a little audience interaction.  Indeed some of her off-the-cuff banter with a crazy family in the front row had me in stitches.  Everybody says that Wilby is ‘on the way up’ and has ‘bags of potential’.  I can only endorse that popular view.

MW