Like a cat with some helpless sparrow, Roger Monkhouse loves to play with his audience, teasing them and manipulating them to his every whim before closing in for the kill.
He is an instinctive compere, but he also uses the same conversational techniques in his set, adding an appealing fluidity as he weaves material so seamlessly with the razor-sharp banter.
He talks almost incessantly, which adds to the feeling of spontaneity. You may feel this ceaseless stream of words is a defence mechanism, a tactic giving him space to think while leaving no room for a heckled interjection. Yet the jokes come out with such regularity, and he’s in such command of the audience, he’s in no need of any such trickery. You can even forgive the nasal delivery.
Some of the material’s saucy – and uncompromisingly so – other parts are passionate and polemic. He’s sometimes topical, sometimes punny. Sometimes clever, sometimes daft. There is, in short, something in this varied comedy menu for every taste, yet he never appears to be pandering to any of them.
He is a gifted natural, with the years of experience to know how to handle a crowd, which goes to make him one of the consummate professionals of the stand-up circuit.
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