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Miles Jupp - reviewed by James Murray
His comedy stems largely from his astonishment at the
roughness of the world, being asked whether his Nando's is "ok"
produces a great rant about aspiration that cleverly tickles the
line between being working class and middle class.
On occassion he overwrites, with some passages struggling to lift off the paper and onto the stage. But his more polished routines, including a hilarious finale that is funny due to his concise setting of the scene and a carefully planned build up to a joke that only works because of what preceded it, flow off the tongue with crisp precision.
Jupp is the host of Newsjack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsjack, a largely improvised, satirical, radio sketch show by the BBC. Jupp's dulcet tones are perfect for UK radio, but do seem a little funny in Auckland. His comedy is so hard-wired into the guilty conscience of a Britain that always struggles with class issues that it takes on a strange hue on foreign shores. Like a Middle Eastern reporter delivering his live cross in Polish. Jupp deals with this quite cleverly - swapping Leicester for Hamilton and comparing New Zealand's concept of Nandos to the UK's.
At the beginning of his show, Jupp takes a crack at Irish comics.
"I wish I had an Irish accent... so I didn't have to write any material."
This is Jupp in a nutshell - he hasn't taken the easy route to comedy success but the quality of his writing has got him pretty far.
On occassion he overwrites, with some passages struggling to lift off the paper and onto the stage. But his more polished routines, including a hilarious finale that is funny due to his concise setting of the scene and a carefully planned build up to a joke that only works because of what preceded it, flow off the tongue with crisp precision.
Jupp is the host of Newsjack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsjack, a largely improvised, satirical, radio sketch show by the BBC. Jupp's dulcet tones are perfect for UK radio, but do seem a little funny in Auckland. His comedy is so hard-wired into the guilty conscience of a Britain that always struggles with class issues that it takes on a strange hue on foreign shores. Like a Middle Eastern reporter delivering his live cross in Polish. Jupp deals with this quite cleverly - swapping Leicester for Hamilton and comparing New Zealand's concept of Nandos to the UK's.
At the beginning of his show, Jupp takes a crack at Irish comics.
"I wish I had an Irish accent... so I didn't have to write any material."
This is Jupp in a nutshell - he hasn't taken the easy route to comedy success but the quality of his writing has got him pretty far.
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