Here's a nice review from Buxton:

JAKE YAPP: CORNERSHOP SHOWDOWN - Jake Yapp

Now, I’m not a huge fan of game shows, or even a fan really, but Cornershop Showdown was a fantastic way to start an evening! Hosted by Jake Yapp and his glamorous assistant Julie we were treated to a hoot from start to finish, with hardly a pause for breath!

The show is set in 1976, but a 1976 on steroids! It takes all the elements of your average 70s game show and boots them into overdrive. Tacky prizes nobody wants? Here you can almost win your weight in fags! Fags, fags, fags everywhere – your GP’s nightmare!

From the introductory song about Buxton – you must listen to it – you know you are in for a fun time. Our hosts are genial, welcoming and possibly in denial and with the help of a mass of audience participation it all moves along very nicely indeed. Special mention should be made of the on-stage participants Graham and Martin (selected by what looked like a nerf gun firing fags) who more than held their own for the majority of the show. Bravo chaps!

It was by turn eye-wateringly funny, cringe-inducing, memory provoking and bonkers! Each round was seemingly topping the previous including a round called ‘More or Less Tar’ and one featuring ‘The Bl*ck and Wh*te Minstrels (as a child I was taken to see the real thing and still carry the scars).

All of this is held together by Jake (loved the shoes) and Julie – who is rarely without a fag or drink in her hand – and it is one of the funniest shows I’ve seen at the Fringe in a while. I urge you to catch it this evening (18th) at Underground Springs and avoid the inevitable disappointing end to another World Cup. You’ll be so glad you did.

Ian Parker Heath

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