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David Whitney at The Pipeline
Live Review
Pipeline

Posh-accented David Whitney’s delivery is an actorly, hectoring style with every key syllable carefully emphasised. Chortle has previously compared his near-arrogant style to the forced brashness of Mitch Benn, and that certainly still stands. Whitney, now in his fourth year as a stand-up makes it work, though, with gags that are becoming as confident as his delivery.

There’s an efficiency to his jokes on such universal subjects as dating and religion, which often come dunked in a tongue-in-cheek laddishness that lends a playful spirit to the posturing. With bags of confidence and mainstream sensibilities, it probably won’t be too long before he’s a fixture on the bigger clubs where such qualities are vital.

He is a very clever writer with lots of very different subject matters that most comics don't go near. His stuff on the arms trade and Edward I, are hilarious

tom, November 2009

Although he doesn’t appear a good writer of ‘jokes’ or particularly original material as such, he does have a knack of taking a complaint or a view and turning it into something the audience can really laugh at. A lot of the comedy is in the delivery and his throaty voice but that doesn’t mean to say he isn’t a solid act.

Steve McBride, October 2009

I saw him at Jongleurs and despite being clearly ill he ripped the roof off.

Todd Anderson, December 2007

I LOVE this guy: he's the next Al Murray!

Thomas, September 2007