Jamie Hutchinson is one of the brightest stars in the modern wave of comedians.
By that, I mean that without a single TV appearance, he has still amassed over a billion views online. The cult of Hutchinson runs deep. From his frequent features on various YouTube platforms such as Stephen Tries, to his massive success as co-host of Hot Water’s ‘Green Room Podcast’, Hutchinson is at the forefront of the comedy renaissance.
Known primarily for his garish antics, visceral storytelling and debauched, borderline-foul anecdotes and observations, the character and mythology surrounding him on stage is enormous. This repugnant caricature of desolation and self-destruction has audiences wrestling with its authenticity, praying it is all a stage persona, and silently begging Hutchinson to lighten up.
The character, which cannot be far from the real Hutchinson, would be a damning, borderline-tragic affair if he didn’t have the comedy chops to back it up. Beneath the screaming, the topless hijinks, the beer-stained rants and the horny vulnerability, is a masterful wordsmith. A seasoned, practiced professional who has honed his craft, Hutchinson hides his precision perfectly under a blanket of Stella-soaked stories and high-voltage performance.
If Jamie Hutchinson is new to you, the closest comparison would be Johnny Vegas. The manic outbursts, volatile unpredictability and unprecedented gag rate are common threads between the two performers. Yet Hutchinson also shares the poignancy and poetry underlying Vegas’s catalogue. Wrapping the miserable and the disturbing in endlessly entertaining anecdotes, Hutchinson is like a British Bukowski – but with ginger hair and a pot belly.
Jamie’s debut tour, ‘Waterslide’, was met with rave reviews, as he explored the pathetic-ness of life, his self-deprecating humour punctuating the set. It put him firmly on the map, and now his almost entirely sold-out second show, ‘Can My Mate Come? He’s Sound?’, is set to cement his reputation as one of the greatest stand-ups on the circuit.
As seen on Sean Walsh’s ‘Class Clown’, Shane Todd’s ‘Tea with Me’ and JaackMaate’s ‘Happy Hour’, Hutchinson is a hurricane of a storyteller, mixing fact, fiction, the fantastic and the downright fucked in equal measure.
Jamie Hutchinson is a comic like no other on the circuit. If you want to see how low life can get – and laugh while doing it – get yourself a ticket
Jamie Hutchinson heads to Middlesbrough Town Hall on Thursday 14th and Saturday 16th May.
Tickets, priced at £23.00 in advance, are available at boxoffice.middlesbrough.gov.uk.
