14 METRO Tuesday, January 20, 2015

SADOWITZ PUNCHLINES ARE A TOTAL KNOCKOUT

REVIEWJerry Sadowitz: Card Tricks & Bile, Leicester Square Theatre, LondonHHHHH

by SHARON LOUGHER

FREE speech is certainly alive and well at Leicester Square Theatre this month. Not only is the London venue hosting

Stewart Lee (a man who can always been relied on for clever, well-judged antagonism, usually at squeamish liberals), there’s also Jerry Sadowitz – still comedy’s biggest enfant terrible.

In his show Card Tricks & Bile, the latter is sweeping in its scope, taking

in every religion, political leaning, race and headline-hitting victim (Madeleine McCann features promi-nently), as well as turning in on Sadowitz himself.

It’s not for the squeamish but that’s precisely what saves this ranting magician: it’s all so uncompromising as to be absurd, particularly when you consider that Sadowitz is a recluse in real life. His ability to strike an uncomfortable nerve so precisely probably says more about his audience than him.

What’s most thrilling though, is his desire to sabotage his masterful sleight of hand with a brutal punch-line... naming a sublime disappearing trick in honour of Malaysia Airlines, for example. This combination of savagery and beauty has become his stock-in-trade over the years but he remains brave and unique.

I’d bet my last dollar on someone getting an Oscar for portraying his life story one day – providing he doesn’t magic it away first.

Sadowitz is at Leicester Square Theatre, Jan 23 and 24.

leicestersquaretheatre.comReclusive: Thrilling Jerry Sadowitz

IN B R I E F

Sex in the desert cost me £165,000A ROMP while at a cowboy ranch cost a Briton rather more than a fistful of dollars.

Peter Cousins suffered a heart attack while having sex in the Nevada desert.

His girlfriend ran for help and the air ambulance rescue and surgery landed Mr Cousins with a £165,000 bill.

Mr Cousins, 55, from Sturminster Newton, Devon, was not insured and is still negotiating over the bill.

He insists ‘it was worth it for the sex’ – but he and his girlfriend have since split up.

Kiss 100 ‘sorry’ for airing explicit trackRADIO station Kiss 100 breached guidelines when it played an explicit Calvin Harris track during an early-evening chart show, the broadcast watchdog has said.

It played Open Wide, which features swearing and strong references to sex acts, ‘at a time when children were likely to be listening’, Ofcom added.

Kiss was expecting a radio-friendly edit but said it was ‘deeply regrettable’ the adult version was broadcast on November 2.

Housework?That’s a job for women ... say menFORGET equality... women are still expected to do the ironing and men mow the lawn in millions of homes in Britain, a survey reveals.

Domestic chores remain split accord-ing to age-old traditions with jobs seen as either ‘his’ or ‘hers’.

Women may be smashing the glass ceiling at work but in the home they are probably cleaning it, a poll of 1,000 adults by Ask Jeeves suggests.

The survey found 36 per cent of men say the household washing and ironing gets done by their partners.

And 27 per cent leave the housework to their other half while one in four lets their wife or girlfriend do the cook-ing... unless it’s a barbecue.

The sexual stereotyping is not one way. Jobs such as mowing the lawn are left to men by 27 per cent of women

while 31 per cent believe it is the man’s job to do DIY.

‘In 2015, there is no reason why men can’t do the washing, women can’t set up broadband connections or both do their equal share,’ said a spokeswoman for Ask Jeeves.

by NICOLE LE MARIE BATTLE OF THE SEXES

Doing the laundryGeneral cleaningCookingHome StylingFood shopping

DIYMowing the lawnUnblocking sink/toiletSorting out broadbandBarbecuing

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...AND JOBS FOR THE BOYS

JOBS LEFT TO THE GIRLS...