Review of Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies... Live!

Most people will have heard of the comedian being one of the key writers of the genius comedy The Office, and later Extras, and then he appeared on screen more often as well, including The Ricky Gervais Show, but I was looking forward to seeing how he would handle doing his own one man show. Stephen Merchant plays to a large theatre audience and brings to the stage his easy humour, combining some observational jokes with little digs at himself and anything else he can think of, but apparently the main point of this particular show is to find a woman, or a wife, hence the title. In the show he obviously talks about the reason for doing the stand up show, and he also talks about why stand-up comedy, his first appearance in a national newspaper appearance after being at the Golden Globes, his height (he 6 foot 7 inches tall), science and maths, an interview, newspapers, giving and receiving opinions, talking to women, the 1980's, pornography, abbreviations and texting, being with a woman, sex, he used a special camera on his face that makes him look stranger, and much more. He is obviously an award winning writer, but he does prove he has a good stage presence and can entertain an audience with his own jokes and show, I admit I have seen slightly funnier things, but I don't see why he can't do another one. Good!