This Review is from August 2025

Simon Munnery looks unwell.

“Two weeks ago, I was in an A&E in Bedford on a drip. They let me out, so I came here.”

He’s wearing a long unkempt beard and appears tired.

“So, yeah, I did myself in really, never mind your weight loss drugs. Try ten cans of cider a day. I didn’t shop for ten, but it’s ten cans for £10. Why would you spend more for five?”

This isn’t theatre, this is real life. He is still wearing the hospital ID bracelet.

“I hadn’t had a meal for five weeks and was excreting this horrible total black stuff, and they thought maybe my guts were bleeding. That’s how they put me in hospital.”

What an opener. Simon Munnery is my favourite comedian. Top of my list every Fringe for the last thirty years. He’s still funny, even now, even as he delivers much of the surreal, meandering set sitting down.

Get well soon Simon.

A version of this review appears on Episode 14 of the On the Mic: Five a Day podcast.