American comedian Whitmer Thomas is something else. In the best possible way. He is a stand-up but also a musician and various other things too. Following the success of his first HBO Special The Golden One, his latest show Big Baby is Soho-based this week. If you like your humour with lashings of oddball sprinkles he is thoroughly recommended.
Thomas, from Alabama, is in his mid-thirties and comes across as part-stoner, part-reference-dropping hipster. Along the way, he’s playful and mischievous, disturbing and confessional, accompanying himself on keyboard and guitar as he tells stories about his life, lobbing in a stunning Jack Nicholson impression here and a slightly less definitive Michael Caine take-off there.
