Simon Munnery's AGM
The Stand

Simon Munnery's AGM is back for another year and yet again it is not so much a stand-up comedy act as an insight into the psyche of a comedian. More self analysis and self doubt pepper this performance where ocassionally promising threads seem to die an untimely death and the bizarre musing gets an elongated day trip for which it has not paid or packed a lunch. The increasingly gloomy presentation of Munnery can come across as mumbling, bored and disinterested but it is merely pushing and testing the boundaries of the stand-up genre, although after this amount of time I had hoped there might be a destination or at least an itinerary.

Mild musical interludes dot the performance and amid the pure self indulgent there are moments of brilliance which I wish were developed rather than be left in the comedy cul-de-sac. Munnery always leaves you wanting more, but sometimes it's not more dead pan observation, more musical off-shoots, more audience participation or more experimental themes, but just more of what the show promised in it's brighter moments.

Get thee to a Munnery