There’s something for everyone in a Phil Wang show. Puerile jokes and sophisticated ones. Progressive jokes and conservative ones. New jokes – and revivals too, in a set that includes routines regular Wang-watchers will have seen before. But if they’re olden, they’re usually golden, in a 75-minute show that can only bolster the British Malaysian standup’s burgeoning reputation.
You get a little bit of everything he’s good at tonight, as our host kicks off with cross-cultural, British-Chinese material of the type that made his name. As ever, in this riff on the British fear of re-heating rice, Wang casts himself as the equable Mr Commonsense perplexed by the eccentricities of those around him. That’s never funnier than with the routine (from his 2022 show The Real Hero in All This) about the propriety requiring nipples to be covered even when the, ahem, “boob blob” is exposed.
