Comedy review: Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked, Pleasance Courtyard
Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked, Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) ***
Not content with pointing out how the grass isn’t always greener, he propels specious reasoning to ridiculous extremes. He is especially adroit at bemoaning the philistine British approach to sushi and is enjoyably patronising about our rice portioning. Equally entertaining is his frustration at the bureaucracy and excessive attentions of airport security his ethnicity provokes.
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Hide AdYet while he might be delivering home truths, Ng can also occasionally fall prey to stereotyping, his tone shifting too harshly into snobbery about, say, Butlins, which undermines an otherwise charmingly assured debut.
Jay Richardson
Until 25 August