Matthew Crosby's been stand-up for a while and he's definitely comfortable on stage and with the audience. This year's show he deals with a trip to Russia and how he's felt inferior due to his height throughout his life.
It's an hour peppered with some lovely jokes and observations but there's also some tomfoolery that doesn't quite hit the mark; an impression and dance of Vladamir Putin goes for an especially long time and at the end the audience throws oranges into a bucket held by another audience member (it's a callback to a story (it makes sense in the show) but to be honest I wanted to eat the orange, so I did).
It's an enjoyable hour and this is clearly someone who's confident in his material, and it's certainly not bad. Stories are well structured and punchlines are put in nicely, but there's not really enough in the way of jokes or such an engaging story-telling technique to really captivate us. Still, it's worth a watch.
Score: 6/10
Venue: Just The Tonic At The Mash
Dates: 27th-30th August
Time: 19:40
Price: £5 or pay what you want
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