Fringe Comedy review: Ken Cheng - Chinese Comedian

By The Newsroom
Published 5th Aug 2017, 16:50 BST
Updated 12th Sep 2017, 11:58 BST
Cambridge University drop-out and now professional poker player, Ken Cheng. Picture: PleasanceCambridge University drop-out and now professional poker player, Ken Cheng. Picture: Pleasance
Cambridge University drop-out and now professional poker player, Ken Cheng. Picture: Pleasance
Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian | Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) | Star rating: ***

Ken Cheng establishes his cerebral persona and pedantic wit with a bravura opening routine, a forensic dissection of the phrase “to kill two birds with one stone” that he accomplishes with scientific precision, testing his various theories against exemptions and loopholes, before expanding into other avian-based sayings and an observation on the 2011 South African cricket team.

Elsewhere in this impressive debut from the Cambridge maths student turned professional online poker player, he playfully deploys a series of amusing graphs, his infectious pleasure in the graphic depiction of his various flights of fancy, matched only by his delight in the deconstruction of syntax.

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