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David Whitney at The Pipeline
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The 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.

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Funny as fuck.

gfunk, November 2011

About a week ago I had booked tickets to see Paul Tomkinson at the Comedy Box in Bristol. I received an email saying Paul was now unavailable and was being replaced by David Whitney as the Headliner. If we weren't happy with this we could refund our tickets. We very nearly did, as we had never heard of David Whitney. Thank God we didn't. He had my wife and I in stitches for 40 minutes. He is not only very funny but also original in the subject matters that he talks about. There is a lot of filthy blue material in there as well but I thought even those bits, if a bit too much at times, were very clever as well.

J wilson, October 2010

Saw him last night at Ahoy comedy, where he was so funny I nearly wet myself. and really original as well

ian jonson, September 2010

Saw him at the Canons Gait that night. The only reason he stuck in my mind was because he nutted a heckler. Possibly because halfway through he decided to scrap his material and just stick to verbally attacking (before the physical attack) the heckler, which did get quite wearing and repetitive. Overall, not very imaginative comedy.

Fergus, August 2010

He just nutted a heckler in the white horse at fringe. Incredibly unprofessional and stupidly childish. Thumbs up to Ro Campbell for controlling the situation and making it a good show.

robert dare, August 2010

He just nutted a heckler in the white horse at fringe. Incredibly unprofessional and stupidly childish. Thumbs up to Ro Campbell for controlling the situation and making it a good show.

robert dare, August 2010

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

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