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Original Review:

Not often seen on the circuit these days, Day is now better known for his broadcast work on Match Of The Day, Talksport or Five Live.

But while that CV suggests a sporting bent, his live set takes its cue from the world of politics – with the twisted world of the bigoted right a favourite target. Indeed, he once had a teenage flirtation with that world himself, as he explained in a one-man show of the Nineties, but has long been reformed and redeemed.

His approach to stand-up is casual and stealthy, low-key and laid-back. Indeed, his starting points often appear unexciting, gently meandering into familiar topics with a few so-obvious-they-had-to-be done lines that don’t do much to capture the imagination.

But slowly and subtly, this robust South Londoner Nudge into more thoughtful and inspired territory, with the punchlines to match. Only then do you realise you’ve been seduced – or hoodwinked – into some very classy comedy indeed.

His act is ten years old, same old gags, same old yawns. Boring laddish crap. When on Radio 5 Live, he comes over as a petty-minded, pompous prat struggling as a wannabee intellectual. Choice between a ground-glass eye-wash and Kevin Day? I'd take the bleeding eyes every time.

Mike, June 2006

I've had funnier nights boiling my balls in a saucepan, not only is he footbally inept he is not funny.I suggest anybody who goes to watch him takes a feather a tickles themselves, as that is the only way they are going to raise a titter. Doj 20.02.05

Doj, February 2005

Supports the greatest football team in London and he's very funny. What more can you ask for? Brett 31.01.05 Supports the lamest football team in the UK and he's very funny. What more can you ask for? Stephen Grant 02.02.05

Brett