Dylan Moran, The Alexandra, Birmingham - review
Comedian Dylan Moran brought his latest stand-up tour to a packed-out Birmingham Alexandra Theatre.
The Irish BAFTA award-winning star delivered a refreshing and hilarious 110-minute gig to The Alexandra for his new tour, Dr Cosmos.
Famed for his deadpan style and crackpot lyricism, 46-year-old Dylan had the audience in stitches from the word go - or perhaps from his opening joke about Theresa May’s ‘escaping’ facial features.
Often sipping from a mug of what he admitted was ginger tea, he made light of the fact he hadn’t had a drop of alcohol since January.
The Black Books actor also joked about how he couldn’t eat anything spicier than ‘room temperature snow’ and would ‘take a picture of a cookie out of pocket every Sunday to look at’.
Dylan, who is a father to two teenagers, touched on life as a family man - saying he spent most of his time at home hiding on the couch watching David Attenborough.
He joked that his wife, Elaine, was in charge of ‘fun’ - which often meant dinner parties with other couples or ‘Macbeth on Ice with Maria and Phillip’.
Personally, I couldn’t stop laughing at that one.
A lot of Dylan’s best material, in my opinion, were the jokes where he touched on his personal life - jesting about his kids not respecting him by demanding he ‘taste the milk’, or his anecdotes about dating.
He brought politics into the mix quite early on but didn’t stay on the topic too long - something I was secretly pleased about. I much preferred his jokes about unaffectionate cats, how people feel when they are taking a shower (like a pig in a typhoon in a phone box, in case you’re interested) and how when he sleeps it sounds like ‘an angry man telling another angry man to attack a bag of ducks - but his hammer is too small’ whereas his wife simply sounds like ‘two bees agreeing with one another’.
Dylan, who has also starred in films Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run, was fantastic, and his show on Saturday night had me laughing from start to finish.
It finished far too early - I just wanted to hear more.
Visit dylanmoran.com/wandering for more tour dates.
