Comedy review: Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy, Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, Edinburgh

Dry, caustic and unsparing, Australian émigré Daniel Muggleton is a deceptively sharp, informed social commentator in a tracksuit, with offbeat analyses of Brexit, racism and misogyny.

Daniel Muggleton:Pimpin' Ain't Easy, Laughing Horse @ The Counting House (Venue 170)

Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (But I Reckon it’s Easier for Straight, White Men?), Laughing Horse @ The Counting House., Edinburgh * * *

Likening his appearance and manner to that of an undercover agent, he’s avowedly aware of the struggles of women and minorities, but happily benefiting from the patriarchy and white privilege all the same.

With his motives and principles so thoroughly compromised, he can be damning of his adopted home, his opening musings on the UK leaving Europe, the NHS and Royal Family archly witty, though essentially an extended diss on Brits’ lack of physical attractiveness.

Until 25 August

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