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These free pre-Edinburgh sketches featured two local comedians trialling new material.

Jo Neary Does Animals And Men was the title of the first, from someone who proved herself more surreal than hilarious.

Her comic canter through the alphabet was packed with imitations and exaggerations that nudged the funny bone in such quick succession there was barely time to laugh.

Highlights were when, as "agony aunt" Jo, she consoled a chameleon who couldn’t find a foundation to match her complexion, and a parody of a pretentious woman reading out notices at a Paul Klee exhibition: “Room Thirteen, Blocks Of Colour. Aah – now we are home.” Irreverent, irrelevant - and delightful.

As for Fraser Geesin ("Doctor of Humour"), this dabbler, nay polymath, began with a sonic representation of a joke, followed by tasters of ones he, “would have done had you, in fact, paid”.

Geesin overawed with snigger-inducing self-esteem, especially when referring to "The Making Of The Making Of Star Wars, The Musical Of The Musical", and then brought us crashing down with the assertion that, “You can relate to a brick, because you don’t expect much from them.”

Unlike a brick, we expected much of him, and were not disappointed.