Bursting onto the circuit in 2010, Jon’s now a staple at top clubs like The Glee, Comedy Store and Jongleurs – plus a two-time Edinburgh hit whose Tall Order sold out in two weeks.

 

As a host, he’s a missile of warmth and wit, riffing on the “mattress lifespan theory of marriage,” charming the audience into glorious chaos ( even The Headmaster got involved ), surviving a brief coup from the “Basic B!tches” and landing killer lines like “Do you Excel in IT?” with perfect timing.

 

Fast, fearless and hugely likeable, Jon is the ideal comedy ringleader.

A sweet, deadpan cherub with the soul of a savage. Winner of Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and the Channel 4 Sean Lock Award, he somehow makes outrageous thoughts sound gentle, thoughtful and devastatingly funny. 

 

From gym-as-therapy questioning – the real meaning of weight lifting – to teenage sex panic and a pitch-perfect Nicki Minaj skit, every line landed with effortless charm. Soft delivery, sharp mind, huge laughs. Definitely one I’d queue up to see again

We inwardly groaned when the full-tilt New York gangster swagger hit the stage, bracing for nonsense but were delightfully wrong. Zak Splijt’s manic alter-ego is daft but devilishly sharp, laughing at his own absurdity, pulling us into his catchphrase chaos and flipping “classic jokes” inside-out like a comedic mind trick. #

 

Total caricature, weirdly brilliant, and completely unforgettable. We’ll be adopting the catchphrases ourselves for sure! Oh, and we will NEVER eat a Peperami the same again. 

One comedian best enjoyed RETROSPECTIVELY…

 

if you know, you know.

 

Headlining the evening were the utterly, ridiculously, how-is-this-even-allowed-to-be-this-good geniuses that are The Noise Next Door, the UK’s improv comedy powerhouse who make “instant comedy” look unfairly easy.

 

For the uninitiated: they take wild audience suggestions, throw in lightning-fast brains, razor-sharp jokes, big daft characters, spontaneous songs and absurdly physical comedy… then somehow assemble it all into comedy gold, live, on the spot. Multi-award winners, Fringe sell-out legends, and frankly just showing off at this point.

 

The second they burst onto the stage the room crackled with pure chaotic charisma. The audience were thrown straight into the mix, Whose Line Is It Anyway?-style, with gags firing at a pace that made blinks feel risky. 

The speed of wit was staggering, jokes layered inside jokes and characters evolving faster than a supermarket meal deal. 

Watching their collective brainpower at work was like seeing four comedy supercomputers running the same brilliantly ridiculous program in different accents.

Standout moments:

 

Harold Bishop and Alan Rickman impressions sneaking into scenes so perfectly that they deserved their own spin-off scenes.

 

A ‘two-headed’ man delivering an unforgiving moral reckoning over pineapple on pizza.

 

Shedding a new light on Mary Poppins.

 

The outstandingly ridiculous “Not So Sexy Song.”

 

And the gloriously cheeky moment of “Revenge on Ryan,” which should probably come with a waiver.

 

 

The whole show was a masterclass in quick-witted brilliance: hilarious, joyous, outrageously clever and gloriously unhinged. 

 

I’ve seen them before, loved them then and love them even more now, and yes, I’m already booked for their tour because once simply is not enough.

 

Go see them. Your face deserves to hurt this much from laughing.