Quote: wombat, Oct 2010Jack Whitehall.
He is fairly quick on panel shows, but to me, most of his work strikes me as banal and unfinished lazy obserational comedy I can't see creating a long term career for him.
For a comedian I have never heard anyone say favourable things about- if they mention him at all, he seems to be getting an obscene amount of air time.
He was on at a night when I was at Jongluers and wasn't great. An uninspiring comedian with a horrible image and irritating voice. He was passable, but most of it was, as you say, good because of it's topicality. Didn't go too deep.
No one's quick on panel shows. When you're given the questions three days in advance, and a run through beforehand spontaneous wit has very little do with it. Lemmy stormed out of Never Mind the Buzzcocks because of it.
Tyres from Spaced was one of the comedians the night of Jack Whitehall at Jongleurs. Middle aged, bearded and doing material about his teenage kids in his Northern Irish accent, my residual affection for him carried him all the way through.