This review was first published on The Public Reviews.
Adam Buxton is very popular. This might be because he is a
face (or voice mostly) that we all know. With a career spanning 15 years,
either performing with his company partner Joe Cornish or on various radio
shows, television and film, his impishly bearded face or equally impish voice
will probably be familiar to you.
Yet, it’s not just familiarity that makes him popular, for he is also just really likeable. Which makes an evening spent with him, ‘going through the random s**t’ on his laptop a joyfully inane experience.
Yet, it’s not just familiarity that makes him popular, for he is also just really likeable. Which makes an evening spent with him, ‘going through the random s**t’ on his laptop a joyfully inane experience.
The show is centred around Buxton’s laptop, in fact, I heard
one audience member say on the way out, say ‘but it was just a screen’. Yet,
what makes Buxton’s show a little different from the rest is not the use of
multi media, but the ease of use. A bit like spending the night with your mate
Tim (just like my mate Tim incidentally) as he deftly and daftly drifts through
files labelled ‘My favourite Scottish book.’ or ‘Legendary Hip Hop Shops of
Leicester.’. He also includes bits of his Bug show, in which he explores the idiosyncratic world of Youtube video
commentary, complete with a wide array of eccentric voices. His manner is
gentle, knowing, very silly and as he says himself, a little bit puerile. I was
utterly charmed by him, in fact I’d even like to quote one of his commentary
trolls and say ‘He is the tasty egg of my breakfast glory.’
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