2022 Edinburgh Fringe

He's playing but you can feel the audience draw an audible sharp breath when working class good kid Jacob Hawley declares he is becoming more right wing as he ages. It is a risky gambit to open a show at an arts festival with. The adept and increasingly fast paced comedian somehow manages to take in fatherhood, foot fetishism, vigilante justice, mental health and the hit movie Grease in this impeccable hour of man-and-mic stand-up.

Men will literally do a 55-minute show about identity, social class and drinking olive oil, instead of going to therapy :/ Award-winning wide boy Jacob Hawley considers whether ample mental health is an exclusively middle-class pursuit, if he's finally graduated from drugs to antipasti and, all considered, if he's ready to be a father. As seen on Sky's The Russell Howard Hour and BBC Three's Ladhood. Creator and star of Radio 4's Class Act and Welcome To Britain, BBC Sounds' Jacob Hawley: On Drugs and Jacob Hawley: On Love. 'Must-see staple' (List). 'Voice of a generation' (Chortle.co.uk).