In recent months, Miles Jupp has been making something of a splash on TV, appearing on Mock the Week, Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Have I Got News For You. A regular performer at the Edinburgh fringe, his latest show “Fibber in the Heat” arrived at the Junction, Cambridge on February 1st. The theatre in the Junction is an appropriately intimate setting for the show, with the small auditorium allowing the audience to feel a real connection to the monologue Jupp presents.
Miles Jupp, erstwhile portrayer of Archie the Inventor in Balamory, leads his audience on a journey from the Oval to India on the trail of the English Cricket team as they tour in 2006. Jupp chooses not to cram his show full of easy belly laughs, striking a whimsical tone as he reflects on the series of decisions that lead to him attempting to blag his way into the world of the cricket journalist in order to watch more of the sport he loves. His conversational tone meanders its way through farcical attempts to get his hands on the holy grail (a press pass), chance meetings in the bar with his cricketing heroes, an unsavoury encounter with some roadside cuisine and finally the cathartic realisation that it may be better to be a fan than a journo after all. Along the way he is insulted, embarrassed and is singularly unable to produce anything that is ever likely to get published anywhere people are likely to read it.
Jupp’s charming manner and endearing pomposity warm the audience to him, and it is hard not to be drawn into his tale, laughing frequently at the absurdity of his self imposed predicament. As a fellow test match lover, the pace of the show feels similar to a cricket match with periods of frantic action, followed by more prosaic moments before the show bursts back into life at just the right time to keep the audience hooked.
A fabulous show by a comedian who is just beginning to receive wider recognition. Catch him next time he is in town!
Miles Jupp, erstwhile portrayer of Archie the Inventor in Balamory, leads his audience on a journey from the Oval to India on the trail of the English Cricket team as they tour in 2006. Jupp chooses not to cram his show full of easy belly laughs, striking a whimsical tone as he reflects on the series of decisions that lead to him attempting to blag his way into the world of the cricket journalist in order to watch more of the sport he loves. His conversational tone meanders its way through farcical attempts to get his hands on the holy grail (a press pass), chance meetings in the bar with his cricketing heroes, an unsavoury encounter with some roadside cuisine and finally the cathartic realisation that it may be better to be a fan than a journo after all. Along the way he is insulted, embarrassed and is singularly unable to produce anything that is ever likely to get published anywhere people are likely to read it.
Jupp’s charming manner and endearing pomposity warm the audience to him, and it is hard not to be drawn into his tale, laughing frequently at the absurdity of his self imposed predicament. As a fellow test match lover, the pace of the show feels similar to a cricket match with periods of frantic action, followed by more prosaic moments before the show bursts back into life at just the right time to keep the audience hooked.
A fabulous show by a comedian who is just beginning to receive wider recognition. Catch him next time he is in town!
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