Kieran Boyd

Kieran Boyd

Kieran Boyd has been part of the sketch troupe Wittank since 2006, and began his solo stand-up career in 2011. staring with an Edinburgh two-handed with Wittank colleague Mark Cooper-Jones.
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Kieran Boyd: Egg

Note: This review is from 2016

Review by Jay Richardson

Kieran Boyd picked his title, not for any particular significance. But because it's a word that's amused him since childhood. And as it happens, that's a pretty good summary of his show: some things that have drolly entertained him since he arrived on the planet.

Born in Warrington, he enjoyed a privileged upbringing that has robbed him of his broad, rugby league player accent. But it returns every now and then as a voice in his head, a disappointedly critical pundit of his more embarrassing moments.

Regional accents tickle him, it transpires. And he would be flirting with condescension, were it not for the fact that he's a decent mimic and the qualities he attributes to Scouse, Brummie, Geordie et al are so abstractly weird but oddly apposite, that it ought to be impossible to take offence.

Besides, his ancestry resides in one of the most aggressively distinct areas of the UK, Northern Ireland. His blustering, blowhard of a great uncle affords him some stout anecdotes, the old man's blithe disregard for sensitivities and take-me-as-I-am mentality something Boyd can only admire.

Definitive traits he reveals of himself meanwhile, are the laziness he's perfected from working at home; a blood phobia that's as sensitive and inconvenient in its triggering as it is horrific in its consequences; and an unabashed love of heavy metal.

This seemingly incongruous passion for someone as likely to attend an upper-class rowing event is made explicable once he relates, with persuasive reasoning, how metallers are just nerds accustomed to never troubling fashion. Twitter feeds of some of the most ridiculously named bands seem to bear him out, hilariously juxtaposing their Satan worship with the frustrations of suburban dads seeking to escape their stultifying home lives.

Boyd is comfortable as an outsider, secure in his quirks. But he's also capable of the kind of acute social observations that would grace any mainstream stand-up showcase, from the potential awkwardness of door-holding etiquette, to more originally, the narrow thematic limitations of birthday cards for dads.

Framed with some solid crowd work, gamely engaging the front few rows as he seeks allies in his geekier interests, this is a solid if unshowy stand-up debut, consistently amusing but never risking the spectacle of Boyd's favourite, hard thrashing bands.

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Published: 22 Aug 2016

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Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2006

WitTank: Pop goes the iCulture


Edinburgh Fringe 2008

Wittank: Sexy Pudding


Edinburgh Fringe 2010

Wittank 2010


Edinburgh Fringe 2011

Don't Mess

Wittank 2011


Edinburgh Fringe 2012

Comedy Zone 2012

Wittank 2012


Edinburgh Fringe 2013

Wittank Presents The School


Edinburgh Fringe 2014

WitTank: Old School Secrets


Edinburgh Fringe 2016

Kieran Boyd: Egg


Edinburgh Fringe 2017

Kieran Boyd: Sitzpinkler


Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Kieran Boyd – Crashing the Party


Agent

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