GLENN WOOL ‘NO LANDS MAN’ TOUR REVIEW

For a Wednesday evening show, the audience was a real mixture of people, and nicely populated; not too busy, not too empty, and the atmosphere was very warm and friendly as a result. The Frog has had plenty of experience with shows like this, and the ability to close the balcony and effectively half the size of the club allows for great flexibility in audience sizes, whilst maintaining the atmosphere of a busy club.

Wools cheeky asides to the audience, and sly digs at himself, really were the icing on the cake here. The audience was friendly enough that he could rant without impediment, and then crack a joke about himself without inviting a barrage of heckles from drunken sales reps. As much as a few characters dotted about the audience can add to the atmosphere of a comedy club, the tendency towards attempting to one-up the comics performance can often spoil an acts momentum. This was entirely absent here, which is what I enjoy about the more polished mid-week comedy rather than the brash, stag-do-orientated weekend shows, despite the smaller (more intimate, to use a useful reviewers euphemism) audience sizes.

This is the second date of the UK tour of his Edinburgh Festival hit No Lands Man, and its a great show. Glenn Wool has a real talent for making people laugh, and manages to wield multiple types of humour at once, from the political to the down-to-earth, via surreal flights of fancy and the downright crude and borderline offensive. Fitting all that into a single anecdote is a mean feat for any comic; not bad for around a tenner.