In an attempt to dispel ignorance, Imaan Hadchiti explores public reactions to his restricted growth. Through a mixture of live comedy and video footage, he wants to show the audience what life is like from his point of view.
He used video footage of people asking him ignorant questions about his height and laughed about how he had found a legal loophole which meant he didn’t need their permission to be in the show. The set was extremely bland, Hadchiti recycling the same gags again and again. After mentioning the people who tried to pick him up and tell him how cute he was, he decided to take the show in a different direction in order to prove himself the antithesis of cute. He certainly succeeded in this ambition, making jokes that were offensive and completely inappropriate. Claiming that he doesn’t like political correctness, he certainly veered as far away from political correctness as he could manage.
After taking a poll of the audience, it seemed like the majority were there because he had enticed them in by flyering. The show was billed as showing what life was like from the perspective of someone with restricted growth. What it didn’t mention was that he would make offensive jokes, declare that people who are religious are wrong and joke about his use of drugs. The funniest part of the show was a quip made by a member of the audience, and I doubt many of them would have been there if they’d known quite how terrible the show was going to be.
