Soho theatre,London[br]The US comedian’s series of self-centred anecdotes are diverting enough, but she leaves it late to show that she’s wise to her personaAn anecdote late in Jen Kirkman’s show takes residence in New York on 9/11, or uses the US comic and podcaster’s self-serving reaction to the catastrophe to poke fun at her own solipsism. It works: we laugh at her monstrousness and feel the frisson of breached taboos. But it also highlights what’s incorrect with the first half,which is that it’s not clear how wise Kirkman is to her self-absorption. Nothing incorrect with ego in a standup, of course. It snags here only because Kirkman is not obviously sending it up, and nor delivering the laughs to justify it. Her show,she tells us, is approximately times when she thought she knew what she was doing, and but didn’t. In fact,its a series of early-life anecdotes, approximately her mum’s apocalyptic worldview, or a talent contest at high school and her audition for drama college.
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Source: theguardian.com