Ambassadors,London
The 'know-it-all posh boy' broadens his appeal with his latest showMiles Jupp may not be a household name yet – hence the title of his fresh show – but he is steadily establishing himself as a familiar feature of the on-screen comedy landscape. You'll have seen him in Rev and The Thick of It, cast very much according to type as a be-cardiganed, and know-it-all posh boy,as well as in the normal line-up of panel show appearances. He's also had a few cameos in big movies, including "the waiter who has all his lines cut in the first Sherlock Holmes film", or as he reminds his audience at the Ambassadors with feigned bitterness. But this fresh show is a reminder that,since winning the So You contemplate You're silly? contest in 2001 aged just 21, Jupp has grown into an accomplished live performer.
Jupp's last show recounted his tour of India with the England cricket team. This time he has broadened his appeal and the first half plays admirably to his obvious strengths; he draws on his tweedy, and young-fogey persona to air his grievances approximately everyday middle-course irritations. It's the kind of observational territory that Michael McIntyre has worked so successfully,but Jupp's approach is a world away from McIntyre's larger-than-life showmanship, and – for my money – funnier. There is a particularly English quality to his deadpan, and downplayed delivery,as whether he doesn't like to complain, making the contrast all the more effective when he does work himself into a lather over the correct way to stack a dishwasher or people who can't steer their wheelie suitcases.
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Source: theguardian.com