There are sometimes when you are sitting in the middle of an almost sell-out (apart from two empty seats, which Dan Clark himself points out early in the show) audience watching a stand-up act, that if you listen closely you can actually hear the moment they both click. It is that moment where the audience relaxes, and the comedian gives it all. And with Clark, that moment is magic.
Even when his routine isn’t perfect (with the excuse of a lost Ipod he comments on society’s alienation), and it has some punch lines that fly over everyone’s head, Clark knows how to pace it and milk it, getting the most out of every single joke. But it is when he decides to throw it all away and improvise that he is at his best. He is very inventive, funny and sharp, and has the audience at his mercy, laughing at every new joke he comes up with.
His stage persona is not overconfident, but it is this approachability that makes him a great entertainer, as you can relate to his problems, his ideas and the way he thinks.
Clark’s show, even with a patchy start, goes faster than a speeding bullet, and when it finishes you just wish time worked like an Ipod, and you could press repeat.
4/5
Adrian G. Velazquez
