Three true stories, one fake. They tell the tales and the audience have to guess the false story. The idea is simple, yet clever, so it is a pity its execution turns out to be so boring.
The Liar Show has four guests acts (performers with their own Fringe shows), come up on stage, each telling a story from their life, and it is up to the audience to guess who of them is lying. The problem is that, the actual stories, are not funny anecdotes rarely amuse, but are, in fact, very random and monotonous incidents that have happened in the comedian’s life. So more or less, you get a funny man not being funny, you pay to see a comedian not being comic. In fact, this is very much how they would sound on a day to day basis, whenever a stage is not around.
In tonight’s show, we get the likes of Jo Caulfield tells of when she turned up for a job interview drunk or Liam Mullone chatting about when he had to go for petrol in the desert (one can not get duller than that…). They are good comedians, but tonight they shine for the wrong reasons. Their stories could put you to sleep.
The fun part begins once the stories have been told. The audience now can ask as many questions as they want to all performers, just to see which one has lied all along. Everyone seems to be having fun asking as random questions as ‘What colour was the car?’ or ‘What was your friend’s name?’ in search of a wrong answer, or a sign that they are fibbing.
At the end, everyone votes, the liar is revealed, and the audience goes home, satisfied in the knowledge that they can read people’s minds and find the liars amongst ourselves.
With another set of guests acts, maybe the night would have gone better, but as it stands, the show is undoubtedly boring.
2/5 
Adrian G. Velazquez
