What do a chip shop in Leeds, a methamphetamine called Tic Tic and a long-lost tax-exile father from Andorra have in common?
The answer, as you’d expect, is not very much. Or at least not until Abandoman, Dublin’s comedy answer to Eminem, got his hands on them – not to mention his rapid-fire brain and vocal chords.
With incredible speed, buzzing energy and no lack of ability to draw people out of themselves, he set about extracting names, life stories and ideas from the audience (the more bizarre and obscure the better), poured them into his head and then spat them back out as fully crafted and hilarious improvised raps.
We were drawn into a world of Harry Potter taking Tic Tic with Ashley Cole on the moon, the world’s most generous chip shop and a grand finale duet with Abandoman’s long-lost “pop-pops” (or at least a man in row three who he swore was his dad).
This was clever, witty, fresh and vibrant comedy – not to mention really good fun – all set off by the visual bizarreness of it being delivered by a rapper who’d look more at home with a pint and a bag of crisps in the pub.
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