Tom Wrigglesworth's Nightmare Dream Wedding

A wedding video should immortalise one of the happiest days of a person's life, with images of the happy couple surrounded by smiling relatives, drunken friends and vast quantities of food. Unfortunately, Tom Wrigglesworth’s wedding video shows him alone in a dingy room, with only an oxygen machine and a large duvet for company. He looks at the camera, bleary-eyed. Clearly, something has gone terribly wrong.

The show follows a similar format to The Hangover, in which a husband-to-be has to retrace the events that occurred during his stag night in Las Vegas. Wrigglesworth’s Vegas wedding story starts with the day he went to watch the Jeremy Kyle show being filmed. Quite why he went to watch Jeremy Kyle’s show, considering his undisguised hatred of the chat-show host, remains unclear. It is the first of many sections of his story which really doesn’t make much sense.

Standup routines don’t require strong plot lines, but Wrigglesworth spends so much time describing increasingly complicated events that there isn’t much space left for jokes. It’s unfortunate, because Wrigglesworth interacts well with the audience and is a confident and stylish performer. But despite a promising start, the content of this show is mediocre at best. It drags towards the end and, unlike The Hangover, the final explanation prompts more questions than it does answers. Wrigglesworth is clearly a very talented comedian, but this particular performance does not show him at the height of his abilities.