Glee Club, Cardiff Bay
Sun 4 Feb
Oh well. Unless you’re tight with someone special and can get your ass on the guestlist, you’re out of luck because Some People Vs. Reginald D. Hunter – Preview is sold out. The title is a play on the award-winning TV drama on OJ Simpson, and this is the Georgia-born comedian’s second year of the tour. For this Cardiff gig, Hunter will be road-testing material for 60 minutes, but a sampling is better than none at all. He isn’t your traditional stand-up comic delivering a joke a minute. The plain-speaking 48-year-old’s laid-back style is more like a hip, thoughtful professor presenting a dissertation on hot topics. Hunter (who’s been in the UK for 20 years after initially coming over to study drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London) says he doesn’t court controversy and wants to engage audience’s minds, but that’s not to say he doesn’t get up people’s noses. The posters for his 2006 Writers’ Guild Award-Winning show Pride and Prejudice…and Niggas were banned from the Tube, while certain persons at his 2013 performance at the annual awards ceremony for the Professional Footballers’ Association supposedly were highly offended at his use of the N-word. Make up your own mind on the regular panellist from Have I Got News For You, who doesn’t feel any topic is off-limits.
Tickets: £15. Info: 0871 472 0400 / www.glee.co.uk (RLR)