Patrick Monahan runs onto the stage full of energy, greeting everyone on his way, cheering himself and the audience. Monahan’s 2009 show is a non-stop, side splitting hour long stand-up routine, where he never pauses to catch up his breath, and the audience never stop laughing out loud.
His jokes come fast and slick in a routine that feels more ‘on the spot’ than prepared, where Monahan manages to draw the biggest laughs from poking friendly fun at the audience itself, who is ready for anything he throws at them. While there is some kind of structure Monahan tries to follow, he is a hundred times better when he just lets go and interacts with the adoring audience, which he constantly does, sometimes leaving a story half way through, and never returning to it.
Taking some ideas from women’s magazines he has been reading lately, he analyses human relationships (from friendships to marriages), and he tells us about his inner voice asking him not to interact with certain people in social situations. Turns out, the inner voice is right, since it seems Monahan is able to get himself into the most hilarious of situations, where none of us would like to get caught in the middle of.
Monahan’s ‘Cowboys and Iranians’ (the reason for the title is never fully explained…), might just be one of the best stand ups around this year, and Patrick Monahan himself is like a human sized Red Bull drink. Pity they don’t sell those at ASDAs.
5/5 
Adrian G. Velazquez
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