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Daniel Sloss at the Edinburgh Playhouse review: stand-up at its most visceral

It can be a tricky when an angry young comedian becomes a parent. Will they still be as brutally punchy as ever or do they dissolve into a puddle of sentimental mush? Daniel Sloss, now 32, has reached this crossroad and is clearly still raging on all cylinders – between very occasional mellow moments.

Before he gets round to dissecting fatherhood in his own inimitable style, CAN’T, as the title suggests, tackles cancel culture and the cliché that you cannot say anything any more. This is patently untrue in his case, he smirks. He has talked about subjects from paedophilia to sexual assault onstage and has the sold out signs to prove it.

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