16-08-2018 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com

Fringe review: jem rolls: I, IDIOT

jem rolls: I, IDIOT
• 3.5 stars out of 5
• Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library
Jem Rolls, the Fringe circuit’s grandmaster, makes self-deprecation an art, as you might guess from the title.
It’s not a poetry show, he says after a couple of poems. Rather, it’s a “verbal bouffon.” Rolls teases new meaning out of familiar words (who ever realized that Google has the same spelling as ‘go ogle’?), delivering on the promise.
Here we approach
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