Bor is an engaging comedian, good-spirited and cheery, and these qualities are infectious in his stand-up routine. It’s a shame, then, that his show feels just that: routine. This is due to the material, which is pretty uninspired and relies on old staples such as being dumped by text message.
It’s a weakness evident in the fact that the shared anecdotes he repeats are funnier than his own. It’s also there in his attempts at audience banter: confident, easygoing, yet not particularly funny. At one point he asks a blindfolded female audience member to feel the bums of three male volunteers and guess which one is her partner. We wait for the punchline, or the next step of the gag, but that’s all there is to it: an audience member feeling bums. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
Bor has been the warm-up act for Graham Norton and he exhibits similar qualities: strong on character, on observing what’s humorous in the world around him and on relaying this with enthusiasm – but lacking in anything that feels fresh or even like his own material. This might explain the show’s emphasis on Bor’s anatomical anomaly (culminating in not just a drawing of the much-discussed secondary orifice but a close-up photo we really could do without).
Where he does fare better is in his use of various silly but fun accents and personas, which he flits between with ease and which exhibit a spontaneity lacking elsewhere.
Ultimately it’s a mildly diverting if unexceptional show, with patchy material only just brought to life by virtue of Bor’s confident delivery and engaging personality.
3/5 
Lee McRonald
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