Aidan Burley: A Portrait in Mockery

  1. Aidan Burley, drenched in cold sweat having witnessed a burka.
  2. Aidan Burley, desperately trying to catch Mitt Romney's eye.
  3. Aidan Burley, wagering against the idea that such a street urchin could ever be turned into a proper gentleman.
  4. Aidan Burley, keeps referring to "Abyssinia", "German South-West Africa" and "British Somaliland".
  5. Aidan Burley, tearing the takeaway section from his phonebook.
  6. Aidan Burley, rendered conflicted by the Queen's German heritage.
  7. Aidan Burley, bellowing "pull your trousers up, young man!" and sprinting in fear.
  8. Aidan Burley, furious at the foot traffic in modern art galleries.
  9. Aidan Burley, haunted by the number of options on the census form.
  10. Aidan Burley, heckling Father Christmas for giving presents to non-Christians.
  11. Aidan Burley, making sure he calls that room his lounge and not his lebensraum.
  12. Aidan Burley, organising a Leni Riefenstahl movie night at his house.
  13. Aidan Burley, jabbing his hand in the air, shouting "Me, sir! Me!". He is successful: he may do a minister's photocopying.
  14. Aidan Burley, tearfully wiping down his poster of Thatcher.
  15. Aidan Burley, sat in front of a piece of paper scribbling "Coloured? Black? Afro-Caribbean?" and sweating profusely.
  16. Aidan Burley, deliberately misunderstanding the metric system.
  17. Aidan Burley, nostalgic for a time long before his birth.
  18. Aidan Burley, snatching the money back from the Olympic performers' fists, citing the need for cuts.
  19. Aidan Burley, tenderly touching Nick Griffin's false eye.
  20. Aidan Burley, trying to contact Oswald Mosley using a Ouija board.

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Pierre Novellie

South African-born naturalised Manx stand up/writer/actor represented by Christian Knowles Productions

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