Pete Rowsthorn - Keen

Pete Rowsthorn’s show opens up with 15 minutes of him chatting to every person in the first four rows. While the idea is funny, it clearly had no particular end goal, you could sense some audience restlessness as he reached the last few people.

Pete then kicked off the show with tales of family and getting older, and while these jokes were for an older demographic, they were fun. He was in good form, and enjoyed moving around the stage. 

Then Keen took a bit of a left turn, with a ‘Kath and Kim Quiz’, which as Pete does admit, is nothing but a ‘shameless rort’. It did strike this reviewer as peculiar that no questions seemed to be prepared in advance, significant time was spent thinking of questions, which could’ve been remedied with a sheet of random questions written before the run. 

After the quiz, Pete seemed to struggle to find his spot in the show, telling us there was a 'weird vibe tonight', we got a few spikes of jokes. Some could be considered in poor taste (wearing a helmet so tight he looked eurasian), or low hanging fruit (sitting on his own scrotum) but his audience seemed to lap them up.