Showing @ Pleasance Courtyard

Following last years award nominated stand-up mission against Virgin trains was never going to be easy for Tom Wrigglesworth. To be similarly inspired this August would have been impressive, but his half cooked wedding debacle certainly isn’t. Opening with a harsh, High School production quality video of his impending plight did little more than unseat the show before it had really began and left many questions untouched until some 45 minutes later.

His talent does shine throughout, narrating his spurious tale with admirable detail and explosive adverbs, but often fails to follow this up with any confident punch lines or payoffs. Flitting between his inner dialogue and deliberations with the audience of the situations he found himself in, ranging from watching the filming of Jeremy Kyle to airport’s religious rooms, he winds through the tale comfortably.

But showpiece moments, such as a voiceover of exploits from a diary he accidentally acquired, raise few laughs and only elongate proceedings before a surprisingly sharp conclusion. Tighter production and more digression from his yarn may have made better use of his abilities than in overtly flat performance. Hopefully Wrigglesworth can cross swords again with someone on level with Richard Branson before next August.