Marcus Brigstocke

Saturday night isn't always for dancing. Certainly not for me. Instead I had a comedy night with a young friend. Although for him I was merely the early shift as he was going onto a ball, and so presumably dancing was on the card. Anyway, after an early Chinese meal we headed to the Soho Theatre to see Marcus Brigstocke.

Now Marcus has been around for some years and I have heard lots of his radio work, but not seen him live. And while he falls into that none too small group of very posh left wing comics, this routine was not at all (well except for a quick swipe at UKIP) political. And I really liked it. It was largely based on his own backstory, revealing two surprising details, the first that as a teenager he was hugely overweight, the second that having lost a lot of weight, he worked as a dancer. Which he proved by finishing the gig with an Eighties dance routine. Not many comics do that. Actually he was a good mover which one wouldn't expect to look at him. Its not so much because he is tall, but I think because he wears glasses. Have you ever seen anyone dancing in glasses?

He also did a neat routine about a genital examination. One can never go too far wrong with jokes about willies. And showed off his ability to imitate accents with a routine that covered just about everyone to show he wasn't racist, from Nigerian to West Country (which is where he hails from).