Comedy review: Jonathan Pie: Live
Star rating: ***
Venue: Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33)
When JP gets torn into charities, the rich/poor divide, David Cameron and Theresa May, it is like watching him put metaphorical frogs in a blender.
His attacks on the professionally offended and recreationally outraged were everything I wanted to hear and blisteringly brilliant. Being Jonathan allows him to get his teeth into subjects that, in the set of a “real” stand up, might seem obvious. And in gloriously colourful language. However much Stewart Lee loathes Cameron, I doubt he’d describe him in the way we hear tonight.
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