Sunday 9th April 2017 - 7:15 pm

I realised probably three quarters of the way through James Veitch’s “Dot Con” that I had seen a lot of what he was performing before. Either on YouTube or maybe some other comedy or British show, but I had seen his performance / presentation before.

Essentially his show is about replying to and taking up time of online scam artists; the “Nigerian prince” scam or the “I have X million of gold” or any of the “western union” scams.

Veitch puts his correspondence up on a digital projector and then performs what’s written on the screen. I don’t know how it could be done without it, but with it, you’re able to read along with him, and I’m not sure if this really helps the performance or not. I found it distracted from it a little bit as you’re reading along with him.

The last quarter of his show was the part I found most amusing, basically a development of the first 3/4 of the show, building on the concept of him ‘taking things too far’. It involves rubber ducks, and as he noted the audience laughs before he shows various images, cementing his point.

I enjoyed his performance and would like to see more of James Veitch even though this show didn’t completely grab me, I think he’s an engaging funny performer.