The Herald
11 August 2003
Rating (out of 5): 
Rattling with patronising, parental care and pregnant with belittlement and pity, the charity tins, for Laurence Clark, are one sign of a society's psyche whose social model explains and locates disability within narratives of "special needs" to segregate rather than to integrate.
The complex network of a terminology and an attitude centred on the "abnormal" and the culture's contamination by charity TV shows drive Clark up the wall. In his All-Star Charity Show, he viciously and wittily destabilises charity's set-up which addresses adults through plastic figures of Paddington and Sooty and, in his own words, prostitute children's cartoon characters while babbling about poor, underprivileged people, who are endlessly presented as helpless, feeble, and utterly vulnerable creatures with the mental capacities of two-year olds. All this, by the way, in addition to being challenging, is funny, sometimes furiously so.
