I must confess that 12 months ago I’d never heard of Michael McIntyre but one of my former colleagues went to se him and raved how brilliant he was. The Perrier judges must have agreed, as Michael was a Newcomer nominee, so this year I decided to check him out for myself and have to concur, the guy is brilliant.

From moment one he captivated the audience with a mixture of chatting with the audience and telling funny stories.

Names seem too be an important part of his set, as the audience are encouraged to assist in the selecting the name for the imminent offspring of one audience member and he checks out the middle names of one and all to glean further humour from them.

And talking of names, he has now obviously made one for himself, and would it look good on the Perrier Award? I for one think it really would.

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