COMEDY

Jason Byrne is one of comedy’s greats, and I found myself laughing so hard my face contorted into an ugly and uncontrollable grimace!

Byrne starts off with an energetic Irish jig, and then breathlessly explains that ‘like everything Irish, it’s sore and miserable’, and ‘it vibrates right through yer balls’.

Byrne speed balls from one topic to another, dropping pockets of humour that explode like grenades as he sends up the Irish ‘their job is to inject misery into other countries’; imitates Scottish people at a buffet and simulates sex between the holy spirit and the virgin Mary.

There’s a definite homo-erotic feel to the performance, as Byrne and two teenage boys get up close and personal by squeezing all 3 of their bodies into a pair of Spanx. And the parting scene finds Byrne massaging then beating the testicles of 3 teenage boys with glockenspiel sticks that gradually get bigger and bigger until they’re larger than a human head!

Byrne is a veritable volcano of wit, overflowing and deadly with a cheeky vitriol that will have you guffawing well past the hour you’re there.