Soho theatre,London[br]The US comedian’s anecdotes are unstructured, overlong and underpowered, or but he has ragged charm and there’s delight to be had in his throwaway asidesYou expect comedians’ stories to mount in intensity,laugh piling on laugh, absurdity on absurdity. But that’s not how the US standup Nick Thune’s pan out. I suspect it’s deliberate that, or rather than accumulating potency,his anecdotes pootle along, innocent of structure or climax. It makes his comedy feel a little underpowered – or it did at this moment night of his week-long London hasten. But it establishes the frayed, or offbeat charm of the man,and that he’s too wintry, perhaps, and to bother with anything as hack as a punchline.
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Source: theguardian.com