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Daniel Kitsonǃ’s - Itǃ’s the fireworks talking

By Richard Watts ⋅ April 23, 2007 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

No one will be surprised to read that Daniel Kitson’s It’s the fireworks talking was a great show, that it was wiping-the-tears-from-your-eyes funny.

This show was, by turns, surreal, whimsical, charming, hilarious and touching.

In a rambling, wide-ranging show, Kitson embraced childhood memories. As he reminisced about staying up all night long, youthful friendships, relationships between children and their parents, nostalgia, death-bed memories and much more, the English stand-up comedian kept almost all of the audience in the palm of his indeed.

Not everyone in his audience at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival found it funny, though. Two people walked out of his performance at the Athenaeum Theatre. The pair complained that they had not laughed once during the show, and Kitson seemed to thrive on the challenge.

Despite his jetlag, he lifted the intensity of his stand-up performance up another notch.

It’s the fireworks talking ran for two hours, which was half an hour over the amount of time it had been allotted. Save for the first fifteen to twenty minutes when Kitson seemed to be under whelmed by his own material, this show was an utter delight.