As you will quickly gather from this show Marcel believes himself to be better than you. Indeed his opening song ‘I’m better than you’ might start to give the audience that notion. He builds up a well crafted persona of a supremely arrogant, culturally and (crucially) sexually superior, wine-sipping, suave Frenchman. From his outsiders perspective he is able to offer his thoughts on why Britain and specifically England is in such a bad state. His material although often based around cultural differences and absurdities is a little more varied than that, discussing at length his numerous sexual endeavours and misogynistic appreciation of women. His stories, spoken in an immensely smooth yet gravelly accent, were interspersed with lyrically slick musical numbers and poems.
Some of the best moments came with misdirected build up and then a punch line out of nowhere, hitting the audience totally unawares right on the funny bone. These were particularly successful but also quite rare and it was perhaps disappointing to witness a return to a more conventional routine where the success of the gag relied heavily on the delivery of some strong language as the punch line. This was amusing enough at the start of the gig but for some a little repetitive by the end. His character though is finely tuned, very watchable and at his best has the audience in fits of laughter.