Steve Hughes

Everyone went to school with a Steve Hughes. The weird kid, just that little bit too into death metal who thought smoking weed was the height of personal experience and who believes every internet conspiracy theory going. The type that is really "political and shit" but whose politics extends no further than yelling "stop the war" at the occasional protest march or wearing a "Bliar" t-shirt.

Steve Hughes is doubly annoying, though, as he no longer has the excuse of being a teenager with nothing better to do. Playing to an inexplicably full Tron basement, Hughes kicks off with a very brief introduction to his half-baked ideology. Essentially, everything is crap: the government is crap, religion is crap; science is crap; drug laws are crap but changing them would be crap. We quite literally have stumbled across a man whose views haven't advanced since adolescence, and whose comedy hasn't quite taken into account the fact that Bill Hicks once walked the earth, doing what Hughes does, only much, much better.

Hughes will only ever be funny if you fit one of the following criteria: a) you're a pseudo-communist 15-year-old who hasn't read any history, b) you've never read a broadsheet newspaper and can't quite grasp the idea that the world is a complex place, or c) you're absolutely unacquainted with the work of Bill Hicks. Even then, there are much better things to see.