Reginald made a fair point about people’s sensitivities when they attend performances like his – you really need to suspend any you have at the door and enjoy the performance for what it is – comedy. Comedy, after all, is about laughing and not taking anything too seriously otherwise what is the point of it.

As can be guessed from the title of Reginald’s show he sets out to be as controversial as he can. Apparently his ads have been banned from the underground and buses due to the “N” word and previous viewers of his show have called him anti-semitic and mysognistic. Its true that Reginald seemingly holds very strong opinions about racial matters but the point is that he is not gratuitously offensive about expressing his views. And, at the end of the day, you don’t have to agree with what he says.

The first half of the show was utterly brilliant with the jokes coming thick and fast taking apart all races, but in particular the African-Americans and the Jewish, in a very original and funny manner. He argues that the “N” word is not about African-Americans feeling oppression from its use but about the white man’s guilt of things done in the past. He argues that life is all about the deals that we make with ourselves and with the world. He definitely presented a range of thought-provoking ideas about how we view the world and our place in it.

The second half of the show seemed a little less brilliant with jokes becoming a little more crass and deliberately provoking. For example, at one stage he asked who in the audience had seen their own “@sshole” and that discussion when on for some time. I could kind of see where he was going with asking that question but after the intelligent dialogue of the first half came as somewhat of a disappointment. He also got slightly more preachy which only added to the feeling that, as Jenny said, the show would have been better if he had stopped at the half time break.

There is no doubt that Reginald D Hunter is a brilliant comic who puts plenty of thought into his material. When he was on fire his comedy was spot on but unfortunately his moments of low brow comedy made this otherwise perfect show less than perfect.