| 12 August 2011
This show is exactly what you expect from the title: angry, self-serving, gratuitous rubbish. And that is me putting it nicely.
Webster’s repulsion at the youth of today appears so intense that you feel convinced his reasoning must be equally as forceful. Surely the intelligent jibes and hilarious social lampooning are coming…any minute now…maybe not then.
This comedy could have been a joy to watch were it not for the fact that it solely relied on lazy stereotypes and overused observations for laughs. Webster’s best attempt at culture and musical progressiveness stops with Hollyoaks and Joe McElderry, apparently, and it is all Thatcher’s fault! This is less a lament of the death of youth’s eternal rebellion and its paucity of cultural innovation, than it is an unfunny tirade.
Every now and again, there would be a burst of hope in the form of entertaining one-liners, but these were too few and far between to sustain the show. Visual aids and printed cues likewise helped to punctuate the show, but really just illustrated his rant.
Webster’s command of the room, however, is impressive: with his booming voice he grabs the audience’s attention from the beginning and maintains it until the token song at the end of the show. It is unfortunate that the material is not as compelling.
One feels he could have done much, much better than this.
Gavin Webster: All Young People Are C**ts!, The Stand II, 3-28 Aug (not 4 or 15), 5.50 pm
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