On the way to Mike Wozniak’s show at Soho Theatre last night I passed the nearby comedy club 21Soho and through the window spotted Michael McIntyre doing an impromptu intimate set. You could not get two more different comedians. McIntyre goes straight for the punchline, Wozniak takes the scenic route. Fortunately the wait is usually worth it.
Wozniak‘s new show is not so much stand-up as storytelling. Zusa tells the elaborate tale of his great-aunt’s journey from a pre-WWII Polish village to post-war Luton. It is an epic chronicle that includes, among other things, a guinea pig post-mortem, a trip into town to buy a button and a discussion about the best way to get from Exeter to Weymouth. And that’s before the interval.
