Frank Sanazi: In Like Adolf

Frank Sanazi launched himself on London’s comedy circuit in 2001-2002 as a highly irregular speciality turn. The embodiment of a 50s crooner with a tongue-in-cheek approach to political reflection and a smattering of familiar modern tyrants. His act is not for the faint hearted or easily offended; his politically-insensitive style of ‘Extreme Cabaret’ has divided audiences across the nation, with its marriage of non-PC gags and Frank Sinatra classics such as Strangers on My Flight and Meinway on a Steinway.

"I think what helped polarise opinion on Frank Sanazi," the man tells us, "was yet another illegal and unneccesary war out of which your leader Tony Blair became Middle East peace envoy. Well, you can't write comedy like that!"

Leader of the aptly named Iraq Pack (aka. The Four Singers of The Apocalypse), which includes Dean Stalin, Saddami Davis Jnr and Osama Bin Crosby, Frank formed the band eight years ago for the album, Songs for Swinging Leaders. Frank’s ‘daughter’ Nancy made an appearance as ‘gassed vocalist’. "We toured with this album and the show stormed through Europe. The rest is history (rewritten, of course)."

Asked what drew him and his act across the border, Sanazi says, “It certainly appealed to Rudolph Hess in 1941. He heard the men wore skirts and so he made a solo flight from ze Fatherland just for a short parachuting holiday in Renfrewshire. I am very much looking forward to mein trip across ze border.”

However Frank holds no illlusions about his audience, and suggested to those thinking of checking out his show, "If you are easily offended, or a communist, I would not advise coming along to see Frank Sanazi at The Crack, Kings Theatre on 26 March. If however you like edgy and racy cabaret and appreciate comedy crooning zen you have found your Eden!”