By Kathleen Walker<\/p>\n
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There’s a lot of \u00d4\u00c7\u00fflads’ on the comedy scene, but thankfully, Ivo Graham is not one of them.\u252c\u00e1As he openly admits, he’s an apologetic old-Etonian pupil, but there’s more to Ivo than his\u252c\u00e1upper-crust voice would initially have you believe. Yes, he also went to Oxford, but he\u252c\u00e1earned his comedy stripes from the age of 18 doing stand-up, before becoming the youngest\u252c\u00e1winner of the So You Think You’re Funny award at the Edinburgh Fringe less than a year later. If you’ve been living under a comedic sized rock, you’ll have missed Ivo in the line up of Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, Comedy Central’s Roast Battle and Hypothetical\u252c\u00e1amongst numerous Dave shows, to name just a few. But it’s not often you get to see the\u252c\u00e1slightly more relaxed Ivo, where the politeness remains, but the fun really starts.<\/p>\n
It’s refreshing to see someone comfortable enough with an audience that they will spend their\u252c\u00e1entire first act chatting directly to the audience and actively engaging them in witty dialogue\u252c\u00e1rather than simply utilising them to further their own agenda. He is genuinely interested in\u252c\u00e1hearing about and conversing with others, as he assesses the room. Thursday night at the Glee\u252c\u00e1Club was a real mixture of people in the audience, but it was worth Ivo’s efforts. A gentleman in the front row happened to mention wooing his fianc\u251c\u00ae using \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffGangnam Style’ and guess what was instantly added to the interval playlist?… much to all our collective\u252c\u00e1enjoyment.<\/p>\n
Ivo guided us through the big decisions and moments in his life over the last year. Starting\u252c\u00e1with his self-confessed highlight of 2018, getting to be in the driver’s carriage of a Chiltern\u252c\u00e1Railways train, through to moving in with his girlfriend, now fianc\u251c\u00ae (spoiler alert!) and\u252c\u00e1subsequent fatherhood. However, it’s not a slideshow, but a charming insight into angsts,\u252c\u00e1doubts and worries that we will all have growing up, winning the audience over in shared experience. One of my highlights was the equality discussion about Thomas and Friends, which whilst not as good as the original series or the books (all agreed on that!), is at least\u252c\u00e1now more diverse and a representative of now, leading to one of the best versions of\u252c\u00e1#MeToo, but I will not ruin that pun \u00d4\u00c7\u00f4 head to see the tour if you want to uncover that gem\u252c\u00e1amongst others!<\/p>\n
This thoughtful comedian has spent a lot of time pondering his life and six-year relationship, considering the steps that scare all of us along the way and advising how maybe to handle\u252c\u00e1them, or not in some instances \u00d4\u00c7\u00f4 his proposal story is another one to go and see the show for!\u252c\u00e1You might think that if you didn’t go to an all-boys boarding school, then you would have\u252c\u00e1nothing in common with Ivo, but you are wrong. It doesn’t matter what background you are
\nfrom, moving into adult life is scary and fraught with dimensions you never expected. His\u252c\u00e1cleverness shines through in how he engages and threads his thoughts throughout the show to\u252c\u00e1deliver a masterful finish resulting in the audience leaving to the Abba classic \u00d4\u00c7\u00ffFernando’ \u00d4\u00c7\u00f4\u252c\u00e1now you’re even more intrigued! One minute you’re at university enjoying single life, then\u252c\u00e1you’re figuring out what kind of adult you want to become, before working out your own version of settling down and what shape that takes. It’s not always straightforward and Ivo makes you feel alright about that \u00d4\u00c7\u00f4 recognising we’re all a bit weird, as he discovered in\u252c\u00e1particular by chatting with the audience, is part of the fun of life. Whether it’s babysitting\u252c\u00e1kids and getting stuck at a Go Ape adventure park or buying a fridge for your new flat, Ivo’s\u252c\u00e1got stories to tell that we can all relate to.<\/p>\n
It will be great to see where his next show about his newly discovered role as a parent takes
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