At Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival

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Winner of the Chortle Award for Breakthrough act in 2012... 14 years after starting out in comedy. He was also nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award the same year.

Original Review:

This off-kilter Canadian affects an acid-casualty bewilderment to life; as if he's just come to in front of the TV and is struggling to make sense of the Discovery Channel with groggy head and foggy eyes.

His is hardly what you'd call a straightforward set, rather it's strange and surreal ­ and without the relative comforts of familiarity an old absurdist hand like Eddie Izzard might provide.

Instead the mood hovers in uncomfortably curious space between the spontaneous, the random and the rehearsed. There's a lot of stomping around and striking poses with the microphone, not to mention adopting an odd, wistful accent from time to time ­ even if none of this posturing quite connects to the audience.

But while this leaves a majority of people as confused as he appears to be, there's also a core who absolutely adore it. Youngish and female in the main ­ and his quirkily cool appearance can't hinder that ­ they lap up every non sequiteur that he releases into the ether.

Such adoration is not without justification. For behind all this spaced-out weirdness is some deceptively ingenious material, with Law's finest lines the obvious product of an inspired and intelligent comic mind. Not that he could ever spoil his drifter persona by knowingly acknowledging the brilliance of any of them, of course.

A strange fish then, with an act that's hard to nail down and equally hard to unreservedly enjoy, despite the obvious flashes of brilliance. But you can certainly see the cogs of comic invention grinding away, and that you have to salute.

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Seen him three times and am a big fan of his style, which I'd describe as something along the lines of alternative with panache.

Jon, May 2012

He is just brilliant, you will be guaranteed something different, not your conventional comedian, much, much better than that. Sit back and enjoy the ride!

Jake, February 2012

This man is a comedy god. Quirky and creative he is genuinely hilarious every time and he just gets better and better. More!

Kellie, April 2011

Absolutely brilliant! Very creative and utterly unique. I suppose if I had to compare him to anything, I'd say he's like the stand-up version of Family Guy - surreal with sharp insights and bizarre tangents that left me in stitches. I'd definitely recommend catching him if you haven't already.

Andy T, April 2011

Abysmal - utterly clueless and less funny than an enema. By the time he finished his 15 minutes of drivel most of the room had emptied into the bar/toilets just to get away from the noise. Never, ever again.

Adrian Breeds, March 2011

This man is a genius and unbelievably funny.

Jack, February 2011

Funniest freaking comedian out there. Personable and funny even if half of what he says is nonsense. Top, top comic.

Matt, January 2011

The funniest comic I saw at the Edinburgh Festival this year. I'll definitely watch him again.

Dan, September 2010

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