The basis of Marcus Brigstocke's Why The Long Face tour is that despite being 'a straight, white male' with a 'four bedroom house, three of which are en-suite', he is angry and upset much of the time on a huge variety of subjects. His irritation for the world of politics is well known and no one was safe. Every major politician was ripped to shreds, along with each party (there was a hilarious sketch about which children in the playground would go on to support which party: 'There's six lego bricks here which is enough for all 30 of you' was labour, 'This part of the playground is ours. I know it's got the swings in it' was SNP.) Anyone who voted Brexit was also left squirming in their chairs as he called them almost every name under the sun, insisting they were 'idiots' who couldn't read.

Indeed there was so much cussing that one very posh old lady near the front took a blushing Marcus to task: 'You've sworn 35 times... and you've said f*** 20 times". It all made for a very entertaining show whatever your political views.

As the night wore on, the list of people who weren't picked on got ever smaller: there were gags about vapers, those who owned a Nutri-bullet, those who went to nail bars, those who weren't very 'psific' about the words they chose, and most of all, those who read the Daily Mail. Marcus has a particular hatred for the Daily Mail for personal reasons that become clear later. Unfortunately for her, but very fortunately for the rest of the audience, the head of recruitment for that very paper happened to be in situ and to give you an idea of the length of the 'discussion' that ensued, Marcus theatrically whispered to the set manager 'I'm going to need 10 more minutes'.

The show also passed on to his private life and due to his brute honesty there were some very uncomfortable moments which made for the most memorable comedy I've ever seen, and although not the funniest, it certainly had me laughing.

At the end of the show, Marcus sat down, not to a bottle of water like most comedians, but to a cheese board with a variety of English cheeses. He was in Chipping Norton after all.

Alister Henderson 4/5