[kj] OT Comedy nights out

[Dave Noonan]

I am off to see Daniel Kitson next month (he being the barman from Peter
Kaye's Phoenix Nights with the tizer bottle bottom glasses), absolutely
quality stuff - not so much like Kaye in style, more rambling stories which
usually come to hilarious conclusions...

Review

Kitson is the perfect antidote to the slick, laddish, sex-and-drugs comics
that pervade the circuit.

With his wild hair, wilder beard, lisp, stutter, Coke-bottle glasses and
appalling dress sense, he's not exactly the epitome of confident style.

But then, that's the root of his unique comedy, that of the hopeless
inadequate struggling to get by. He's an untrendy, slightly reactionary,
figure baffled and angered by the harsh world, yet too socially inept to do
anything about it.

Paradoxically, though, this awkward misfit can take command of the most
rowdy of audiences, unleashing a relentless stream of acid put-downs and
demonstrating an unequalled mastery of swearing.

That these two sides of this personality - the delicate, sensitive soul and
the aggressive destroyer of hecklers - so effortlessly coexist is testament
to Kitson's innate comic ability, using arrogance, tempered with
self-deprecation, as a common theme.

In what proportion you see the uncomfortable outsider or the formidable
ringmaster depends on the night, for Kitson knows how to read a room -
always willing to go with the moment, mixing his routines with inspired
riffing to best fit the atmosphere.

In short, a natural born comic.

October 2002

http://www.danielkitson.com/gigs.html

Dave
Leeds
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