Edinburgh comedy notebook: spoof self-help gurus have pulling power
Comics cross the line into real life-coaching with tips for gents on undoing bra straps and advice for ladies on keeping their hats onThe increasing popularity of self-help and life-coaching have proved a gift to comedians in recent years, perhaps because, like politicians, self-help gurus can so often sound like parodies already. Will Adamsdale won the Perrier award (as was) in 2004 with his spoof life coach Chris J…