It’s very rare that being emasculated is an enjoyable experience. Watching Daniel Kitson provides one of those moments.

Watching most contemporary stand-ups the feeling that you could at least replicate most of their material or at least do a notable parody is somewhat comforting. You can understand where and how the material has come from or the delivery has an imitable pattern.

Watching Kitson this doesn’t happen. Sitting at a table with a sample box of filler music the only queue to Kitson’s mesmerising material reaching a demonstrable peak is when he pauses the background noise.

His ability to simply string together words in a way that is genuinely unique and creates laughter is uncanny and above the comprehension of many.

A comedians’ comedian, his latest show After the Beginning. Before The End is neither stand-up nor storytelling, it meets in-between. Running with a loose theme about memory and imagination, it is best described as scripted stream of consciousness.

Unlike some of the absurd stretches some of Kitson’s contemporaries go to being anecdotal all of his material is entirely believable. His ability to make his largely mundane life amusing without fabrication makes him and his show utterly brilliant.