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Critically-acclaimed East End boy done good Micky Flanagan performs his sell-out nationwide stand-up tour

Micky Flanagan performs his stand-up tour, with tales of a working class upbringing where alphabetti spaghetti is a luxury, to the hilarity of the middle classes he's now among - who dip bread in oil

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Micky Flanagan: Live - The Out Out Tour

Live performance from one of the UK's hottest comedians. Star of Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and The Royal Variety Performance, Micky ruthlessly dec... Read all Live performance from one of the UK's hottest comedians. Star of Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and The Royal Variety Performance, Micky ruthlessly deconstructs the East End myth with razor sharp observational wit. Live performance from one of the UK's hottest comedians. Star of Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and The Royal Variety Performance, Micky ruthlessly deconstructs the East End myth with razor sharp observational wit.

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Comedy gold: Micky Flanagan's The 'Out Out' Tour Live

Title: The Out Out Tour Live

The setup: Standup's origins are working-class. In this respect, Micky Flanagan appears at first sight to be a typical standup comedian. Like Mike Reid or Jim Davidson, he wears his cockney credentials more openly than most, and draws much of his audience from a similar background. In this show, filmed in Essex , he likens diarrhoea to "emptying an old radiator" – hardly the most bourgeois of comparisons.

Yet while Reid and Davidson got and get their laughs by asserting what they feel are the threatened values of their background , Flanagan does thing differently. Having re-entered education, studied Kierkegaard at university and trained to be a teacher, he is now making money as a comic and has moved into the middle classes. He lives in East Dulwich, he drinks Zinfandel , he attends NCT classes and his son goes to a Montessori school . And most significantly, he has taken on the bourgeois tendency to self-deprecate. What Flanagan most often does with his old cockney values is attack them.

Funny, how? Stylistically, he is very similar to his unreconstructed forebears. He lampoons the cockney walk, although he himself struts about with something similar. He's got classic geezer-hands as well. When making a point, he runs a flat palm forward, like he's sliding a pony to you down the bar. Sometimes he makes that little flashing sign with all five fingers like someone flicking water off their hands. In the words "out out" (disgracefully ripped off by 118118 ), he even has something approaching a traditional catchphrase.

In speech, he also likes blunt instruments. During an extended bit on the rise of promiscuity (which he puts down to the "disappearance of fingering"), he remembers the old days when "you have to tit the girl up for about a year!" On his acquired habit of dipping bread in oil, he explains: "It's got to be extra virgin. It's got to be oil that ain't been fucked." Flanagan can do subtlety, sure, but the strength of that line is the lack of it.

Technically, he isn't perfect. He sniggers from time to time and stumbles over his words. At one point he tries to repeat a section for the DVD, but gets cheered down, and ends up yelling "You fuckers!" with a great big grin into the crowd. But it's part of the friendly informality of his shows that things should work this way.

Which is remarkable, really, in such a political performer. Flanagan pulls out all the usual talk of "Cressida" and "Hector" while he tickles middle-class shopping habits, but then he also praises the parents for encouraging their children, rather than forcing them to steal chickens in their gym bag, like his did. He's witty in his descriptions of the days when men were men, but not at all nostalgic. "They come home, they put the money on the table and they walk about in their pants," he says. "My old man did nothing. If he shut a cupboard door, he thought he was helping out." Next time you hear feminism called humourless, be sure to mention Micky Flanagan .

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With his thick Cockney accent and rough-and-ready approach to comedy, Micky Flanagan comes off as every inch the lovable underdog on this live album. Everything is fair game for laughs—Flanagan gets as much mileage out of his own sexual misadventures as he does from digging into his culture clashes in America. And when he rips into his signature, crowd-pleasing “Out Out” bit about stepping out on the town, he’s like the ultimate beer buddy with a steady supply of belly laughs.

November 17, 2013 12 Songs, 1 hour, 23 minutes ℗ 2011 Redbush Entertainment Ltd

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