Dylan Moran is one of the UK’s best loved comics, and rightly so.
Best known for playing the sardonic, boozy Bernard Black in award-winning Black Books – for which he was also a writer and producer – he has legions of fans who equate the character with the comedian, and to be fair, they’re not far off.
The dedication of these fans mean that his jokes don’t need to be funny – he just needs to pause and laughs erupt.
From the glass of red wine on the stage to his baleful anecdotes and unmistakeable accent, Moran’s not afraid to play to what he knows.
He has 20 years’ experience in stand-up, and his new show Off The Hook is exactly what the fans hope for: a well-structured, engaging, occasionally bewildered couple of hours, delivered in trademark style.
The Dome’s otherwise reverent audience contained one heckler. Actually, the term heckler implies impertinent questioning rather than spontaneous shrieks, so I’ll rephrase: the audience contained one drunk who’d taken too much inspiration from Bernard’s love of wine.
Though this was entertaining for a while it clearly distracted Moran, and the show was improved by her removal.
Moran’s charm is that he’s utterly relatable, and growing older is just giving him more material.
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