Kunt’s on Daytime TV warns that it’s not for the easily offended. Granted, you leave hopes of hearing any kind of respectable or refined comedy at the door as you walk into Espionage. Come on, he calls himself Kunt... Geddit? Therefore I let the crass misogyny go over my head, aware that it was getting some guffaws round the room. What I was offended by, however, was the lack of skill with which Kunt gave his performance. Here is a man who is rather notorious on the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe scene. I expected a certain calibre of comedy, by which I mean, a performer who didn’t awkwardly read their show from prompts and did not stumble over their words.
Kunt spends the first few moments explaining the catalyst behind his new show he is running alongside Kunt and the Gang this year. Apparently, last year, reviewers accused him of having no original material. In an attempt to prove us wrong Kunt decided to do a new show, about daytime TV. Except, instead of putting in the hours and crafting a quality show with commentary about Daytime TV, he apparently spent his time on Facebook. It shows, or it is a poor excuse for presenting punters with a bit of a disappointing act.
The basic premise of the show is going through different Daytime TV favourites and suggesting how he would improve them, interspersed with a lot of talk about minges and a conspiracy theory about Mr Blobby, which incidentally involves minges. His bit on Femfresh as a product and the sections on Jeremy Kyle and This Morning are pretty funny. However, let’s be clear, anyone could have recorded funny segments of Jeremy Kyle’s show, played them and got a laugh. At least the Femfresh bit he was presenting us with was actually original material.
Yet his other original material, such as a sleazy song about wanting a blowjob from Countdown’s Rachel Wiley, were just uncomfortable and depressing. The audience looked on with shock and discomfort searching for an element of irony in his delivery. Hiding behind the tagline ‘not for the easily offended’ misleads the audience to believe that what they will see is something wonderfully gritty and controversial. In fact, they watch someone who appears nervous and unnatural reading out under practised material, which is what offends the most.
