Max Attwood: Am I Better Than Ghandi?

After wooing crowds at last year's comedy festival, 23-year-old Max Attwood is back and attempting to answer the question, as his routine title suggests, is he better than Ghandi? Taking on the monumental task to rank every human being who has ever lived – all 150 billion of us – in order of best to worst is a clever theme that was carried throughout the tightly-scripted, hour-long show. Combining audiovisual projections with the stand up routine worked surprisingly well, and avoided the annoyingly painful stop-start tempo typical of this kind of show. His jokes albeit safe in their content, covered race, gender, celebrity, masturbation, genitals and Hitler, proving that some things just never get old. The routine suffered at times of the delivery front, but the audience was clearly gripped from beginning to end, proving the up-and-comer is doing something very right.