'He's more like an over-enthusiastic schoolboy who doesn't really mean to let the four letter words slip out'
I am astounded that there is a person in Britain who doesn't know who Michael McIntyre is. But after telling people I was going to see his new 'Macnificent' show, his first stand-up tour since 2018, I can confirm his name is not instantly recognisable.
He's like the very funny friend you love to go for a drink with, the one you know will send you into fits of giggles sending himself up and impersonating the people around him, but never with a trace of malice. He's funny enough not to have to resort to putting people down.The Manchester crowd seem especially happy to see him tonight, given his recent hospitalisation with kidney stones forced him to cancel two shows. Now all he needs to do is make them cry laughing.
He then moves on to the pleasures of wine drinking, the snobbery associated with it, and the lies we tell ourselves about that 'little splash' we've just drunk. Food and football are on the menu too, with a cleverly observed piece about different types of teenage boys on the football field for the parents in the audience.
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