one4review | On 23, Aug 2026

Lucas Jeffcoate opens to a room of five people. One more joins us (warmly welcomed) and, to be honest, Lucas Jeffcoate with what he delivers he deserves this room to be busting.

He opens by explaining his looks- what it means to be a man, who looks like a woman – who just left her first husband for a woman at the book club.

He barrels through a torrent of wittily storybuilding one-liners, quickly drawing us all in – no mean feat with such a sparse audience. His central premise is that he feels like he’s drawn more towards his feminine side and due to a steam of vignettes about the guys he grew up with has always felt detached from traditional masculinity.

The show centres on Jeffcoate growing up with an undescended testicle and the ( in his hands incredibly funny) bullying he endured at school. He packs an astonishing number of jokes into the hour. At times, he is delivering at times 3 to 4 punchlines a minute. Not everything lands, but this is an incredibly small audience, and he is witty raconteur playing on the edges of what masculinity is and isn’t.

Jeffcoate has a warmth and gravitas that make it easy to understand why he has won comedy awards and reached the Leicester comedy festival final. He is only 25, and there is a clear sense that while this is funny stuff ,he will inevitably go on to create better and better work.

Jeffcoate uses the small audience to enhance his performance chatting with us all conversationally while improvising jokes. His rapport with us is first-class, the writing is consistently witty, and he leaves us laughing. Clearly he is a professionally adept joke writer with talent to spare.

This is a neatly constructed, satisfyingly buttoned show that thoroughly deserves four stars. But the most exciting thing is the sense that there is far more still to come from him.

Remember the name Lucian Jeffcoate ( you’ll understand when you see the show)

★★★★
Reviewed by Stephen “Sharpie” Sharp
Assembly Roxy
Until 30 August
15.10