Chris Ramsey

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If you haven’t heard of Chris Ramsey, you’re missing out on a rare treat. He is one of those comedians who, despite looking constantly bewildered, never loses control of his performance. Don’t let him fool you though, he knows exactly what he is doing, and if he doesn’t he’ll make up for it in brilliant banter.

Ramsey’s aptly named show Aggrophobic deals with his tremendously pathetic fear of any sort of confrontation, and how he makes his way through life doing everything in his power to avoid it. He orders the types of confrontations he is most worried about in a table, ranked by level of severity and mode of threat, proving to this audience that for him, passivity isn't just a character trait – it's a way of life.

Aided by the use of pictures and images, his animated delivery serves to draw the audience into his hilarious and quirky world, where much seems to have gone wrong over the years in terms of people getting the better of him. Ramsey’s got one thing straight though, it is very annoying when you suddenly think of the perfect comeback – an hour after someone’s offended you. 

This paranoid young man who swears he likes people to laugh at him, is a master in explaining his own fears. If you ever found confrontations distressing and uncomfortable, or just fancy a lesson in Geordie slang, this is the show.