Many comedians rejoice at the chance to use the stage as a psychiatrist's couch, but it takes a rare combination of intelligence, wit, courage and commitment to actually make the prospect entertaining. While Pobjie is certainly smart and courageous enough to turn skin-pricklingly honest accounts of self-harm, depression, masturbation and an obsession with Breaking Bad into a galvanising performance, the emphasis on laughs is secondary to the honesty, but this isn't the comedy festival.
Whatever cheap and transient thrills the Fringe may offer up elsewhere,
Pobjie has no time for insincerity or pretense. This is a compelling,
cathartic, unique and at times challenging show but one that rewards in more
ways than Pobjie possibly intended. Plus, any show that ends with a man wearing
a towel 'for all the people who were told they couldn't do something but then
did it anyway and failed and realised they should have listened in the first
place’ is a man worth listening to.
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