James Campbell entertains at the Swindon Comedy Festival (From Swindon Advertiser)

James Campbell entertains at the Swindon Comedy Festival

3:30pm Monday 29th June 2009 in

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A STAND-UP comedian for kids. It's an interesting concept and one that we were introduced to by James Campbell.

And you don't have to be six-years-old to find him funny - we were chuckling away to ourselves throughout the hour long show at the Wyvern Theatre, and our schooldays are well behind us.

Animals, it seems, are funny for people of all ages.

From how to hide from a giraffe that wants to eat you, disappearing up hippos' bums and running down a hill to escape from bears, there were plenty of survival tips should you find yourself encountering a dangerous beast in the middle of the town centre on your way home.

Evil cats with see-through eyelids, hamsters being the Ikea of the pet world and dogs that love you so much they'd eat themselves were also up for discussion, as were class names and why the first year at school is called 'reception'.

That's a question no-one knows the answer to.

They say kids do (and say) the funniest things, and for us one of the best lines of the afternoon came from a 10-year-old in the front row of the audience.

When asked whether his Gran (who was sitting next to him) was old and funny or old and miserable he said the latter.

Kids. You can't trust them to do anything!