Stephen K Amos: Before and Laughter | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

Audiences can safely be assured of an hour of laughter, whether Stephen K Amos is trotting out one-liners or teasing them.

Stephen K Amos

Stephen K Amos: Before and Laughter

Comedy

Rating: ****

The Roundhouse at The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Until March 20

Stephen K Amos’s great talent is for turning the ordinary into the hilarious, and after being locked away from live audiences for a couple of years he is in good form.

His lessons from Covid? Don’t have your elderly dad live with you during lockdowns. And if you always thought other people’s breath stank, now, with masks, you know the truth.

Audiences can safely be assured of an hour of laughter, whether he is trotting out some lovely one-liners or teasing audience members who for some reason like being made fun of and cram the front rows.

This is a slightly older, internationally famous comedian who can send himself up now that he lives in an up-market London suburb, shops at an up-market Waitrose store and has his foot in a sock for gout, discovered after he fell rushing downstairs to take an Amazon delivery.

He does have some advice: Try to live your dreams. You won’t, but there’s nothing else to be done about it.