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Kai Humphries: Gallivanting – Just the Tonic Nucleus
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Kai Humphries: Gallivanting – Just the Tonic Nucleus

Isn’t it a joy, after a busy day at the Edinburgh Fringe, to be treated to effortless entertainment as a sparkling, inventive mind takes you gallivanting? That’s you, Kai Humphries. And thank you.  Kai Humphries writes his own material and once got grilled by border security in a foreign land where writers (i.e. journalists) were not welcome. They didn’t understand the word “joke” and soon decided he wasn’t worth their time. He is definitely worth your time. He’s a funny writer and tells a good story. I loved his opening where he explored different cultural ways of greeting one another and his existential response to “What’s happening?” He had the audience in the palm of his hand right from the moment he introduced himself off-stage. A Geordie, Humphries exploits both his...