The Late One at The Nest: Hastings Comedy Festival 2023: The Nest, Hastings, 2023
Jack Skipper: Work In Progress: Leicester Comedy Festival 2024: Peter Pizzeria, Leicester, 2024
Jack Skipper: Skint: Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, 2024
Headlining The Late Night at The Nest show at the Hastings Comedy Festival 2023, Jack Skipper used brilliant wordplay in his jokes and routines – creating the funniest and cleverest line of the festival. The audience really warmed to the online sensation as his set grew funnier and funnier.
Skipper performed a brilliantly funny work in progress hour for the Leicester Comedy Festival that I watched in February 2024. A wonderful bewildering stage presence delivering stories of life’s mishaps, he made the audience continually roar with laughter.
I watched Skipper’s debut solo show Skint, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2024. Documenting his life from a carpet-fitter tradesman to becoming a full-time comedian, his observations of being a working-class dad were extremely relatable and very funny.