This is a hard show to review. The basic premise is that stand-up comics from all over the world will compete in this high stakes comedy competition. It isn’t about winning; it’s about not losing.

The comics who fail to make the audience laugh will get back on stage and take their clothes off, perhaps finally giving the audience something to laugh at. The show notes do describe it as loose and wild and late night. Well, it was definitely loose and wild, but it was only 10.30pm so not quite sure of the late night but in this instance late night might have been more a state of mind than a state of clock.

The reason I said it is a hard show to review is because the audience were challenging! We all know that heckling can be a part of every stand-up show but the venue and the intimate nature of the audience (as in the audience being SO close to the performers, not referring to the stripping part of the show) really impacted the level of heckling. The comics had a very short amount of time for their set and yet it was just about every set up the comic was interrupted, and the punchline lost its punch. Such a shame when there is a line up of international artists and the audience can’t stop interrupting.

Hats off the the comedian who said ‘seriously, maybe you should stop talking and let the comedians have a turn’. 100%! They didn’t listen to her but hats off for saying what many of us were thinking! Despite the audience impact on the show, I am booking to go and see Raul Kohli’s full show.

The great thing about shows like this is that you get a taste of the style of a range of different comedians, and you can then decide if there is someone you want to go and see again. My advice to people thinking about going, go but leave the jokes to the comedians!