SIMON MUNNERY - FYLM MAKKER

Simon Munnery is a treat to be enjoyed on rare occasions , like once in your life.

This review from the Skinny gives a fair synopsis of the act.Though the highly optimistic contention that it will leave one howling with laughter could only be attributed to a werewolf to be honest.

Munnery is the Alan Turing of comedy. No matter how smart you think he is, you're still grossly underestimating his intelligence. Fylm-Makker is yet another revolutionary idea, tossed off casually as if this kind of thing happens every day.
The conceit is that Munnery is not on the stage but in a booth located amongst the crowd. The booth has two cameras: one projecting his face onto a 12-foot screen onstage, the other points to a desk where he uses bits of cardboard to produce live animations. Yes, clearly a work of avant-garde genius. Munnery talks us through it with the awe and wonder of someone showing you an app they've just downloaded. Imagine what it'd be like to have to live with him.

The jokes were at best puns befitting a giggles infested crowd in an art school canteen who would quite frankly laugh as much if they were sitting oblivious to each other titteringly scouring the latest facebook or text jokes about random news event of the hour.

This review cautions the reader to the pitfalls and dangers of grossly overusing the word genius , then goes onto to grossly overuse it in a way that invites comedic parody of how well sarcasm can be deployed as gushing praise. .The comment does capture a realistic audience take on the show.

And that goes some way to describe Munnerys humour, are you watching a shite comedian , or are you watching a brilliant comedian pretending to be shite.Munnerys slapdash and superficial style does not permeate , in the manner of Stewart Lee ( who is a massive fan of Munnery) , the boundary which challenges the audience to think deeper about the things they casually laugh about when they know nothing of the depth of the subject or the level of research that is required before you even joke about something in a serious manner ( thus the whole ethos of comedians like Lee), for Munnery this show falls back on its shallowness without getting the audience to have an internalised discussion about the issues they have just , in the case of Munnery , briefly chuckled about.

The video below contains the best joke in the whole set ( which is good to know that even a genius can bring up a five year joke in the best of old-ones-are-the-best tradition)