From the off, he’s engaging, wryly funny, lighting up the room with constant laughs and galvanising the audience.

The show follows Can, a man who lifts himself up through self-motivation and eventually becomes a motivational speaker. Auton’s trademark deadpan delivery is here in full force — the audience still laughing at past punchlines as the next lands — but this is more than a comedy show.

Beneath the silliness is a deep desire for the world to be better.

He defines two types of kitchen clean: wiping surfaces and “moving the toaster.” It’s this kind of everyday nuance that cuts to the heart of what being alive actually is and what type of life you’re living.

Auton creates whimsical, fantastical comedy that reflects the truth of life itself.

It’s clear he loves life and wants us to love it too. Through Can, he constantly reminds us that being alive is extraordinary, urging us to notice and savour it. There’s a moment where someone’s breakfast order becomes a motivational meme — an everyday detail transformed into something joyous. It hit home for me. I found myself relaying it to others after the show.

The journey takes Can from motivating himself, to motivating others, to genuinely changing the world — and being changed by it in return. I won’t spoil the ending, but I stayed in my seat for a solid two minutes afterwards, just thinking about what I’d experienced.

Normally, I’d be running to my next show. I left with a room full of people who, on some level, also left feeling transformed.

A comedy character Auton created who wanted me to be motivated had genuinely motivated me — to see the world differently.

It is pretty amazing to be here. This is a show packed with comedy that’s transcendent.

I have moved the toaster.

★★★★★

Reviewed by Sharpie

Assembly Roxy – Upstairs

13.25 (1hr)

Until 24 Aug