   Imran Yusuf: Bring The Thunder, Pleasance Courtyard,
Edinburgh  Having been nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh
Comedy Best Newcomer Award last year, confident geezer (or
"gangsta") Imran Yusuf is back to preen and provoke. Enough
vulnerability comes through Yusuf's persona to avoid him coming
over as cocky; constantly putting forward his ego, he takes it
back with a self-deprecating reveal.  "A Peperami in a suit" and
"a mix between Malcolm X and Mahatma Ghandi" is how the young
comic describes himself, as he extols "passive non-violent
protest by any means necessary". His main messages are to do
with rejection. On a personal level, he asks women to use their
power of rejection carefully. On a political level, he rejects
David Cameron's assertion that multiculturalism has failed.  To
avoid heartbreak on either level, he shows the ladies what a
swell guy he is while telling the politicians that if a
Mombassa-born Hackney boy raised by Muslim parents of Indian
descent can become a stand-up and crack a doub