It must be difficult for an audience not to have high expectations for Porter’s show. In ten years as a successful comedian she has grown from strength to strength, writing and staring in dozens of television shows, even winning last year’s coveted ‘Best stand up’ award. In that time she has built up a huge following and it’s clear that the diminutive comic simply doesn’t want to disappoint her fans.
Lucy Porter’s appeal lies in one major fact, she is completely and utterly adorable. Striding barefoot onto the stage, beaming with excitement to be there, it’s difficult not to fall in love with Porter (all 5ft of her).
Her comedy style is completely captivating and compels the crowd to warm to her instantly as she delivers her bubblegum comedy that wildly swings from sweet observations to sharp political satire and occasionally into all out smut.
My personal favourite has to be her musings on men in sex shops, as she tries to comprehend them by using a metaphor of women and shoes: These shops promise everything but sex, that’s a bit like women going to a shoe shop and coming away with a shoe horn.
Lucy is sweet, intelligent and wonderfully inventive and she is the audience’s new best friend, though you may not want her to meet your mother with a mouth like that!
4/5
Martin Miller
