Kevin Eldon at the Greenwich Comedy Festival
Note: This review is from 2009
Review by Steve Bennett
Kevin Eldon dusted down his usual poet character, Paul Hamilton, to read from his never-quite published anthology Shadows Of Reflections.He is an appealing mix of twee pretentiousness and a naïvety which he is too self-absored to ever be able to acknowledge. One-liners in which the preamble is the feed and the poem the punchline sit alongside ineffectual ‘topical’ pieces with all the contemporary biting satire of a Sixties Punch magazine. He perfectly captures that certain middle-class Guardian-reading smugness, which somehow seems apt for a lavish gig in affluent Greenwich, and while the character has limited potential, Eldon exploits it well.
Review date: 13 Sep 2009
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett
Reviewed at:
Old Royal Naval College
