Location: Assembly Rooms
Time: 21.15
Price: £10 (£9) or £11 (£10) on weekends

 

Sean Lock is certainly an accomplished comedian, having been nominated for the Perrier award he is still around at the Fringe performing his one-man stand up show.

At first I wasn’t sure what to think of Sean. He came out to rapturous applause, which created the main problem of the evening, he seemed complacent, he didn’t push any boundaries and he just seemed to be going through the motions. The audience around me laughed hysterically, applauded and thoroughly enjoyed themselves for the whole hour. Unfortunately I didn’t.

 Now that isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy myself, I did, but not for the whole hour. It seemed as if Sean had about 20 minutes of material, padding out a whole 60, but the audience lapped it up.

 It took a while to get into his style and the show, but once I got there it was brilliantly funny. Unique, well yes every comedian's unique but Sean’s attempts at his stories although clever was just too absurd thus ruining some of the comedic brilliance, which could have been shown. There were glimmers throughout of brilliance but just not enough.

 His anaphoric references throughout make sure you pay attention, and were certainly the highlight of the show. His act seemed slightly unpolished, a bit raw and for that it seemed at times as if he could have easily died, if a different audience were in. It was a stable, well linked and organised routine on the whole, a bit well bitty in places but there was nothing exceptionally wrong. There were hints of Harry Hill and Kramer from Seinfeld shown in his style and the packed audience included the likes of Nicolas Parsons and Ross Nobel, all seemed to have a whale of a time.

 Sean Lock is funny, he is clever, yet he just seemed lazy and performed a below par performance. That said his act has some great moments and does make you laugh out loud more than enough times to say you enjoyed it.

 

3 OUT OF 5