A football match can sometimes be referred to as a game of two halves.

This was something of a gig of two halves, chiefly because Kevin Eldon (undoubtably the main draw for this show) became the closing act before the interval.

He was supported by Benny Boot and Pete Johansson before the break and followed by Colin Chadwick, John Kearns and Edward Aczel, neatly compered by Irishman Christian Talbot, all in aid of the Neuro Foundation.

We'll skip the other comics not because any were astonishingly bad but because the space here should be saved for the main man.

Eldon can count Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Mark Heap, Simon Pegg and Chris Morris among his peers and it's this grounding in comedy that has allowed him to aggregate and refine possibly some of the finest stand-up material I have heard live.

The hearty cheer he emerged to was no doubt fuelled by memories of his most notable TV work - Big Train, Brass Eye and Alan Partridge - as well as his many fleeting Channel 4 appearances.

He launched into an overblown French accent, lurched into guitar songs and laid out double-punchline jokes; he dispatched a range of impressions and vocal contortions as each successive passage unfolded; he was flagrant and ebullient.

Sometimes a show is so good you stop trying to take notes and simply admire.

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