| 12 August 2011
Here comes the man who “suckles chuckles at the nip of wit.” Yes, Andy Zaltzman is back and ready to face the moral vacuum that is currently Britain head-on. Well, as best as he can with an arrow shot clean through his frontal lobe. Conveniently enough, though, the prognosis is that he will remain alive for at least the next sixty-six minutes. Phew.
The brilliance of this show is that its material is hot off the press and delivered with incredible dexterity. Topics such as the escalating London riots, international diplomacy and the problems of our ageing population all come under rapid fire. His wit’s precision and rigor is astonishing, leaping from topic to topic as if he were landing on a series of pin pricks.
With a smattering of whimsy and Milliganesque clowning, this hour avoids becoming too cerebral and heavy-going. For example, Zaltzman’s solution to our ageing demographic is a simple but inspired one: grandparents must race against their grandchildren, and, should they win, they will not be destroyed. At the very least this approach would encourage the British people to live an active, healthy lifestyle and develop a competitive edge.
Immense fun and full of facts - had he eased off the phoned-in heckling jokes and scrapped the run of dog-related puns, this show would have been great.
Andy Zaltzman: Armchair Revolutionary, The Stand Comedy Club III and IV, 3-28 Aug (not 15), 4.25pm
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