After being recommended by Stuart Goldsmith on his Comedian’s
Comedian podcast (you may be spotting a bit of a theme with my comedy discoveries
these days) I thought I’d see what the fuss was about Mat Ewins. He’s got a very
funny youtube clip of a slightly shambolic magic act then
half-of-a-comedy-double-act set, which is very worthwhile watching.
In the slightly vomit-infused venue of The Hive, Mat Ewins
has made an hour of the most joyously silly, ridiculous, at times left-field comedy
I’ve ever seen.
It’s a tenuous premise for an hour of mad video-based
antics. Mat Ewins plays a famous actor who’s willing to help his audience make
it big too. A variety of crudely doctored video clips and deliberately bad
film-making alongside some smart software trickery with audience members makes
for an hour of raucous, breathtakingly hilarious jokes.
If you’re a fan of general silliness like Pappy’s, Joseph
Morpurgo’s sketches from Soothing Sounds For Babies then this is the show for
you. Mat Ewins is funny through and through.
Score: 9/10
Venue: Heroes at The Hive
Dates: 14-28 August
Time: 21.00
Price: Pay what you want or £5 to guarantee entry
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