Felix Dexter: Multiple Personalities In Order

The show is a mixed bag of straight standup and caricatures, all of which are impeccably executed but also just too tediously familiar. The ghetto man who freely accuses others of racism feels particularly old hat while the the bigoted country gent who can't pronounce Barack Obama is stale. As a standup too Dexter is competent, but suffers for the simplicity of his material. There is, however, something comforting in the way he describes how hiphop music videos exploit women and that old white people are awkward around him; these observations are presented as if he's the first to notice. As his material inevitably drifts to Tiger Woods, Dexter tries a few more daring lines, suggesting that the public is able to forgive Mike Tyson for his similar indiscretions because at least it was black women on the receiving end. It seems that nearing the end of his set Dexter runs out of cliché and is forced to actually venture new opinions. 

Dexter is a great comic talent languishing in tired material, and while Multiple Personalities has a sort of safe old-school appeal to it, it's not a particularly interesting show. A cracking East London accent is no substitute for an entire standup set.