Russell Kane, Hammersmith Apollo - review - Comedy - Arts

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Given more time on a bigger stage this should have been a devastatingly powerful piece.

Instead rarely has a gig been so mind-blowing and also so disappointing.

Maybe this hyperactive hybrid of lad and intellectual has been distracted by his time in Australia co-hosting parts of I'm A Celebrity but apart from a pithy preamble about injuring his testicles in Oz, this set seemed largely undeveloped since Edinburgh. Once over that realisation, however, it was still a fantastic cocktail of sociology and smut, an insightful dissection of modern masculinity combined with knob gags.

Manscaping's narrative centres on a post-marriage-split night with a glamour model - what is it about tight-trousered Russells and glamour models? Kane was never smug as he spooled out an enviable tale of embarrassment and unbridled passion in the Dorchester hotel. He digressed endlessly but was constantly captivating, particularly when sketching his Transit-driving dad. His closing story, about a class-riddled altercation on a train, featured numerous roof-raising punchlines.

A spectacularly whipsmart and entertaining show from someone who can probably do even better.

Russell Kane
Hammersmith Apollo
W6