Call most people ‘a parrot-faced twat’ and you might expect a punch in the throat.Martin Davis puts it on his CV.
For this lively comic’s distinctive features are perhaps his greatest asset – and certainly the source for plenty of material. Visually, at least, you could say he was born to be a comic.
Thankfully, though, Davis’s talents go more than a little further than looking a bit odd. For, as well as ‘twat’, the Viz reviewer his biography quotes also, and quite rightly, used the adjective ‘hilarious’.
Objectively, it’s a little hard to see why, but he is. He has a reluctance to stick to material and an even bigger dread of structure. Instead, he trades sometimes quite hard-edged banter with the audience – his attention flipping from table to table, selecting likely punters to be on the receiving a well-aimed quip.
Davis’s brilliant talent is in whisking all these inconsequential exchanges into an electrified atmosphere, charged with laughter.
He’s a natural born compere .He makes it look so easy – and there cannot be a much more difficult achievement than that.
“Martin skids and bounces across the stage, strung up and tugged around by unknown forces, firing off a relentless rapid-fire assault that hits every corner of the room and kills 100% of all known hecklers
Going where mere joke-tellers fear to tread with his characteristic kamikaze bravado (“Go on, heckle me”) he walks the razor edge of audience participation, daring them to pick him off it.
With enough nervous energy to power a small city, he is able to warm up the chilliest rooms and turn the stoniest punters into soft putty in his hands.”
The UK comedian Martin Davis,has performed in Singapore, Dubai, Holland, Belgium, Jakarta and South Africa.
His South African gigs of his one man show in Grahamstown and Ratanga Junction were quickly sold out. In Durban and in Cape Town he had comedy appearances at The Cape Town Festival, The Smirnoff Mule Comedy Festival and the South Africa Comedy Festival.
However Martin’s talents don’t stop on stage. With several years of acting experience behind him, he has appeared in BBC television productions and a variety of foreign adverts and has numerous private and corporate clients throughout the world.
