Comedy
By David Warneke
The Gold Digger
Wednesday February 11th

If, like me, you have a tendency to shouting quiz answers at the TV in full knowledge that you cannot be heard by the quiz contestants, then I highly recommend Facty Fact, a quiz show where you finally have the chance at being heard.

With most of the games centred around Internet search engines, Facty Fact felt like if Spicks and Specks was run by a bunch of adolescent boys giggling over a dirty Google image search. However there is only one adolescent boy here, that being creator and host David Warneke. Although revealing a slightly concerning snapshot of Warneke’s mind, the games he’s created are both engaging and hilarious: one round was to Google image search people who wear hats a lot; another was to put together two sexual-sounding words from a list and search them on Google images in the hope it comes up with completely innocent pictures (thankfully searching “wet balls” literally came up with a picture of some plastic balls in a bucket of water).

While the contestants debated aloud as to what the answer might be, there were muttered conversations amongst the audience as well, and often we were asked what we thought before the answer was revealed.

The contestants, picked from the many comedians performing at Fringe this year, change every night and are announced on the day via the Facty Fact Twitter page. In this performance, the teams consisted of Jimmy James Eaton, Mike Goldstein, Adrienne Truscott, and Marcel Lucont. I was especially excited to see Lucont live, and he was also the highlight for me.

David Warneke is a very engaging and funny host and skilfully keeps the quiz moving, working equally well with all the comedians to keep the jokes rolling and the laughs coming.

With each performance changing as contestants change, I will definitely be going along to another Facty Fact as soon as possible. Possibly lacking in what are traditionally thought of as ‘facts’, Facty Fact makes up for it with laughs and leaves you with sound advice: to be wary what you type into an internet search engine.

Tonight is your last chance to see Facty Fact at The Gold Digger at 7pm. Tickets can be purchased here.