Jigsy review – Les Dennis sheds tears of a clown for comedy's lost era

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The scuzzy end of show business and all its sozzled, sentimental excesses are captured by the ex-standup in a heartfelt monologue

last saw Les Dennis on stage two years ago, playing a washed-up, old-school comic in the Park theatre’s . Now comes an online revival – by Liverpool’s Royal Court theatre – of his old-school, washed-up comic Jigsy, in Tony Staveacre’s slight but keenly felt 2012 play. It is a character that Dennis has down pat, and his performance is the standout reason to watch this 50-minute monologue, which waxes nostalgic for working man’s comedy and rehearses a few tears-of-a-clown cliches.

 

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