Unashamedly intellectual and political, RDH (as his backing banner proclaims him to be) once again asserts himself as one of Britain’s top comics in a set which oozes self-assurance and comic mastery.
Ironically for someone who makes so much of his outsider status, it is in his robust analysis of the British class system and its idiosyncrasies that Hunter is at his most incisive. There is much to enjoy in this set, but top of the list is his palpable comfort with, as well as his respect for, the audience.
There are no cheap laughs here and, whether he is defending Tiger Woods or retelling stories about his childhood, two things that are never in dispute are his authenticity or his mastery of his craft.
His best line of the night comes as an impromptu response to a well-meaning heckle, and he’s right: laughing until tears come out of your eyes is the best feeling in the world.
4 stars
“foundering on the rocks of a dozen panel shows” I’m glad it’s not just me that has been disappointed with this apparently larger than life guy. I always felt that all the ingredients were there but none of the substance. I’m glad that his stand up works, perhaps he needs the preparation and the security of a script and is not good at the repartee style required of the UK panellist? Glad he’s come good though it endorses the my “all the ingredients” thought.
I think this reviewer is on to something with his “palpable comfort with audience” comment. Reg Hunter’s 2010 show ticks all the Hunter boxes for vocal silk, word visuals, the long-drawn-out punchline, the late-revealed allegory, grammar psychology, political apple-coring and an honesty without bravado that fractures the audience into laughter. However, there is a new tangible intimacy in Hunter’s relationship with his audience which augurs something. I last saw this newness in a nervy scrambled set by Brendon Burns several months before he won the Perrier, and in a new concentration in power of narrative coming from Steward Lee before he started writing “serious” prose. What will it turn into with Hunter? I for one want to find out.
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