This is Nottingham -- Self-confessed habitual self-Googler Daniel Kitson may well read what I write about his show, which makes me wary of saying anything to upset him. After all, he did say he finds it difficult to dismiss criticism outright. More unsettlingly though, he tends to find the critic's Twitter feed and review it until he finds something massively ill judged to count as evidence to dismiss everything they have ever said. Well, lest he disagree with a review I did of Peppa Pig's Treasure Hunt at this venue a while ago, I had better stick to the facts, which are that after watching his almost two-hour monologue on the nature of the self, subjectivity, memory, perception and reality, I have nothing bad to say. In fact, I was struggling to speak at all, such was the effect of following his imaginative musings, colourful sketches and philosophical investigations. Ostensibly obsessed with finding some meaning to justify his existence as a single 35-year-old man with a pool table instead of a child, Kitson's constant twisting and turning on the unknowable state of human 'being' illustrated his own predicament, that his thoughts take two forms; those with no conclusion and those with redundant conclusions. However, his almost pre-determined refusal to accept any general wisdom without testing it for himself provided a refreshing take on some complicated subject matter. From most comedy gigs you might assume there would be some punchlines to spoil but Kitson is a seemingly averse to such tools, preferring rather to deconstruct even the use of the word "assume". It can make an 'ass' of 'u' and 'me'" but can also be "a way of drawing a reasonable conclusion based on available information and past experience". Okay, maybe you had to be there for that one, but while I was left with no jokes to tell, I did have a big smile fixed to my face.
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This is Nottingham -- Self-confessed habitual self-Googler Daniel Kitson may well read what I write about his show, which makes me wary of saying anything to upset him. After all, he did say he finds it difficult to dismiss criticism outright. More unsettlingly though, he tends to find the critic's Twitter feed and review it until he finds something massively ill judged to count as evidence to dismiss everything they have ever said. Well, lest he disagree with a review I did of Peppa Pig's Treasure Hunt at this venue a while ago, I had better stick to the facts, which are that after watching his almost two-hour monologue on the nature of the self, subjectivity, memory, perception and reality, I have nothing bad to say. In fact, I was struggling to speak at all, such was the effect of following his imaginative musings, colourful sketches and philosophical investigations. Ostensibly obsessed with finding some meaning to justify his existence as a single 35-year-old man with a pool table instead of a child, Kitson's constant twisting and turning on the unknowable state of human 'being' illustrated his own predicament, that his thoughts take two forms; those with no conclusion and those with redundant conclusions. However, his almost pre-determined refusal to accept any general wisdom without testing it for himself provided a refreshing take on some complicated subject matter. From most comedy gigs you might assume there would be some punchlines to spoil but Kitson is a seemingly averse to such tools, preferring rather to deconstruct even the use of the word "assume". It can make an 'ass' of 'u' and 'me'" but can also be "a way of drawing a reasonable conclusion based on available information and past experience". Okay, maybe you had to be there for that one, but while I was left with no jokes to tell, I did have a big smile fixed to my face.
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