Manuel Cardoso Brings His Comedy Show to London

This event, happening in London next week, looks like it could be fun. The guy is a comedian who does sketches, and he’s put together a show about bad behaviour (“red flags”) which he’s touring around 10 cities including London.

I assume he’s still going to be speaking portuguese in the London gig… It’s a bit confusing though because he’s given it a title in english and there are no warnings to say it’s in portuguese, so aren’t there likely to be punters who just see it in the What’s On pages, fancy a night out and just buy a ticket on the off-chance? The fact that there are no warnings make me wonder if he’s doing an english version. On the other hand, the online ticket purchase is all in portuguese, so… assuming that’s the only way to get one, hopefully that will keep the riff-raff out and it’ll be safe to do the portuguese show for teh portuguese crowd. Anyway, I’m crossing my fingers. It’s on the day before the exam so I am counting on it being equal parts funny and challenging!

I’ve seen quite a few of his videos and he’s very good, but comedy is always tricky since there tends to be a lot of slang, fast talking and references to events that maybe don’t make sense to outsiders. An hour and a half of that might be pretty challenging if I lose the thread of what he’s talking about! Anyway, I’ll listen to a few more of his videos and try to get really familiar with his accent and the kinds of things he talks about.

You can book tickets on this page (which,just to thicken the plot even further, has a description in both languages!)