Reginald D Hunter, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury - review

And Reginald D Hunter’s show in Shrewsbury ended with him exchanging gestures with an audience member on the front row.

The American stand up was certainly not for the easily offended.

On tour for the first time in about three years with his Some People Vs Reginald D Hunter tour, he was performing to a sell-out crowd in the Theatre Severn.

He opened the show apologising on behalf of America for Donald Trump, which got big cheers from the audience.

And from there, the big topics were racism, his comments on Britain having been living here for almost 20 years, and his family back home in Georgia and got a lot of laughs in Shrewsbury.

All of it was peppered with words I can’t print in a family newspaper.

And he dealt adeptly with heckling from the audience when two people in the circle interrupted.

The row with the couple on the front row broke out over a discussion about Germaine Greer and transphobia, and led to both sides making hand gestures on their way out of the theatre

But he also showed somewhat of a nice side, even complimenting a lady in the front row on her thighs – even if slightly crudely.

Towards the end of the show, he said he had been asked by his long-time agent to do something more “bouncy”.

But when he began that section with a joke about Bill Cosby, it clearly wasn’t going to happen.

The warm-up act was Glenn Wool, who has appeared on top television shows like Russell Howard’s Good News.

A Canadian act, he was so loud he often didn’t need the microphone.

And he was just as controversial as Reginald, though sometimes his jokes didn’t land with quite the same success, he still got a good reaction from the crowd.

There were points where I really laughed and some where I cringed but on the whole it was a really enjoyable night of comedy – though not one for the faint hearted.