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From the people who brought you tulips, euthanasia, wooden shoes, legal prostitution, Dennis Bergkamp, quality drugs, Vincent van Gogh, Raymond van Barneveld, Big Brother, easy abortion and gay marriage.Edgy comedy with a slight accent.'The Amsterdam Comedy Collective will be appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, and anyone in the vicinity is strongly recommended to seek out the show.' (Bath Chronicle, 1 June 2007) Check this out! An interview with the most famous comic The Netherlands know: Hans Teeuwen. http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1180372007AMSTERDAM COMEDY COLLECTIVE 01 June 2007 Bath Fringe Festival

DUTCH footballers not only regularly outplay their English counterparts in the Premiership, they generally outshine them in the post-match interviews as well, often employing three- or four-syllable words well beyond the grasp of our homegrown sportsmen.Six Dutch comedians managed a similar trick at the Widcombe Social Club on Thursday night as the Amsterdam Comedy Collective came to the Fringe Festival.

Compere Micha Wertheim opened proceedings with a hearty 'Hello, Bathonians!' only to be told by a wag in the crowd that the correct term of address is Bathwegians.Micha proved to be an excellent host, giving as good as he got with the hecklers and keeping proceedings moving smoothly, no mean feat with the well-oiled crowd.

In the first half, Hans Sibbell, Ronald Goedemondt and Wouter Mes - respectively likeable, brash and goofy but uniformly excellent - entertained the packed room, providing a constant stream of laughter that any homegrown comedians would have been proud of.

After the interval Theo Maassen was wonderfully grumpy as he muttered his way through the problems of being human.'There's never been a crocodile with mixed feelings,' he observed, 'or a buffalo who wasn't hungry . . . but just fancied a snack.'

The undeniable star of the evening was the final act, Hans Teeuwen, who gave as fine a stand-up comedy performance as Bath has ever seen.He started bug-eyed and terrified at the prospect of performing in English, but after caressing a nipple (his own) he started scaling heights of absurdity that are indescribable . . . so I won't even try.Suffice it to say that his impersonation of his father trying to teach a rabbit to say 'nevertheless' and 'thus' (his old talking rabbit had died, you see) will remain long in the memory.

The Amsterdam Comedy Collective will be appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, and anyone in the vicinity is strongly recommended to seek out the show.

Matthew Zuckerman --------------------------------------------------And on DailyRecord.co.uk: July 2007 AMSTERDAM UNDERGROUND COMEDY COLLECTIVE Toomler Club, Amsterdam, Saturday, June 30 *** Jonathan Trew WHEN you think of Amsterdam, comedy is probably not the first way to have fun that springs to mind. That could change after a 10-strong group of Dutch comedians raid the Edinburgh Fringe this year. You may not recognise the names. You certainly won't be able to pronounce them. But in Holland they are stars with more TV appearances than Amsterdam has stag parties. The Record got a sneak preview of their Edinburgh show, performed in English, and it's close-to-the-bone stuff. Dutch culture is known for being very liberal and that filters through to a brand of comedy that takes few prisoners. Jerry Sadowitz fans might like Wouter Meijs and his unsettling, deadpan quips. Others might find his staring stage presence and jokes about children scary. One of the most likeable of the bunch was Kees van Amstel, who once spent time as an exchange teacher in an English comprehensive. He doesn't seem to have thought much of the kids. 'In a room of 15-year-olds, I was the only one with any teeth,' he recalls. Rather less PC are his tales of losing to a man in a wheelchair at a Table Tennis Disability Awareness Day. His pupils began shouting: 'Shall we get you a blind one, Sir?' Over the past few years, Holland has begun to question its liberal attitude about many things, and one subject that often crops up is how to deal with extremism. After what happened at Glasgow Airport last weekend, many of the Dutch comedians felt they now had something to add. Raoul Heertje found one point on which he could agree with a suicide bomber: 'We both think you should be dead. It's just a question of location.' The Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective play The Tron, Hunter Square, Edinburgh, August 2-26. Tel: 0131 623 3030.