Stevie Martin’s show weighs up the differences between live and online comedy. Her career began in the former, as a third of Massive Dad, and has flourished in the latter, where her sketches with Lola Rose Maxwell have garnered a gazillion views. So why return to the stage? Particularly when (as per one unfortunate headline in this newspaper) comedy can no longer get by on laughs alone?
You could consider Clout as Martin’s one-woman campaign to prove that, actually, it can – and it’s resoundingly successful. Because our host sees the above questions not as opportunities for chin-strokey discussion, but to tee up a tricksy and silly tech-comedy hour, presented by a woman who may have managed to haul herself back on stage, but not to forego her screens while doing so.
