Fairfield Halls, LondonThe perky comic provides plenty of material and eye-rolling at how the other half live but some of the jokes flatlineSome marry for love, some for money, and some – you would be forgiven for thinking – for reliable standup material. Rob Beckett, for instance, married across class lines, which is a good career move in UK comedy. One day, the British appetite may be exhausted for class-based laughs, for fish out of water tales of journeys up and down the social ladder, for them and us and how the other half lives eye-rolling. But that day is not remotely nigh, and until then acts such as Beckett, whose in-laws’ lives are apparently so unrecognisable from his own, and who’s got the jokes to show for it, will continue to prosper.What’s most interesting about the abundant class material in Beckett’s upbeat touring show, Wallop, is that there’s a teensy bit of needle behind it. This cheeky chappie’s a bit chippy. Which is a good thing: it provides a faint but persistent heartbeat to some sections (such as the one that dismisses skiing as irredeemably posh) you might otherwise pronounce – well, if not dead then on life support. Continue reading…
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