Bill Bailey - Qualmpeddler

Qualmpeddler proved that if scientists cloned Bill Bailey's brain and we were all assigned a pocket-sized Bill Bailey at birth, the world would be a better place.

With jokes and anecdotes ranging from politics to the cult of celebrity, his performance was crafted perfectly to combine intelligent cultural analysis with humour to show how ridiculous human beings can really be.

In Act 2, Bailey took a much more musical approach and proved himself to be a very accomplished pianist, guitarist and old-timey car horn player (Metallica's Enter Sandman will never be the same), after earlier fusing Christian hymns with dub-step.

Bailey's mastery of improvisation truly shone when taking on hecklers with the most effective of touches, twisting their remarks into something that made everyone laugh with them. Though on occasion these back and forths between Bailey and the audience were dragged out for a little too long, it was when some of his best material came out of his magical head.

Ending on a poignant note, Bailey left the audience with a video. He shifted the tone of an earlier story told as a humorous anecdote to something beautiful and moving, adding to the many aspects of the show. Funny, intelligent, musically talented and touching - there is much more to this comedian than meets the eye.