saw hecklers welcome last week and it’s amazing how james has tightened up this material over the past year and made it even better just through small tweaks. can’t wait to see the ‘final form’ when he tapes the show!
I've watched all 4 "episodes" of his Netflix stand-up special at least a dozen times, and who knows how many times I've watched his season of Taskmaster and his WILTY clips. The man's a genius (and so is the boy)!
He's not only funny, he knows how to use his voice, he's very charismatic and has great stage presence. The full package to be a comedian. Hope he gets better emotionally and keeps at this because it's a delight to watch him.
I always click on a James Acaster video - and he never disappoints. I liked his material early on, but he's gotten so much better over the years (which is saying something)... :)
I could be wrong but I think the audience were a bit quiet at the start because so few of them knew what a spinning wheel was. There was quite a big laugh at 1:45 when he mentioned "Spinning wool" and the penny dropped for a lot of the audience.
I wasn't sure what he said first couple of times - combo of him saying it fast and no on talking about spinning wheels these days. Maybe a good portion of the audience was French Canadian and it's a phrase that doesn't come up often so you might be right for some. Loved the story.
James Acaster is brilliant and operates on a million different levels at all times. His brain is my brain too. Whenever we go out, the people always shout, “I don’t understand this, what is this, is this supposed to be comedy? Jingle. Heimer. Schmidt. la la La La La la La la.”
Is he? Good for him. I'm not from the UK and none of my friends know him which is soo frustrating. Plus there is no straightforward way to introduce James to them because of language barrier.
I like the way this is kind of extended from the Heckler's Welcome bit. He should have kept the "that doesn't get laugh here ..spinning wheels castles...., but it's weird in the UK too" bit in the US hecklers tour, and he should have left in the stuff that makes me him look like he's being a dick to children in the Roald Dahl bit, inspite of the US theoretically not liking meanness as much, cuz yeah it makes him look like more of a dick, but it also was therefore funnier. And it's the rest of the show already wins us back pretty easily.
this is so strange... drew monson jokes about having a 21 year old adopted british son on his second channel... does entire bits about it.. i have to show him this routine!
Comedian: noun an entertainer on stage or television whose act is designed to make an audience laugh. Jokes not required, the audience laughed. Job done, no?
The thing about james acasters spiel....is it is reliant on him being youthful, or yoof oriented, including his voice characterisation. He is getting old and its a problem...imagine him trying this act aged 45yrs old...it wont work, as say with jo brands act she can still pull it off aged 50yrs+
