What they say about; (me)
****(*) The Scotsman
**** The List
10/10 John Fleming’s Blog
“hints of Simon Munnery...offbeat...something very special”
Beyond the Joke
“A real WTF? Comic”
Chortle
“Bold..truly stood out”︎︎︎︎
The List
“self-aware, freewheeling anti-comedy with a wink”
Three Weeks Edinburgh
“really good at comedy”
ACMS
“Anarchic”
British Comedy Guide
“An off the wall Tommy Cooper with no magic”
Queens Park Arts Centre - Aylesbury
“Never, in my opinion, has a comic established themselves so quickly as a comic within their own psyche.”
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“We haven’t had a comic like you in a long time”
Julia Chamberlain
“craziness that makes him distinctive”
Chortle (again)
“Brave. Different..fascinating.”
“...it‘s all clever and I like clever!.”
The industry. (delivered anonymously and with cowardice!!)†
“Nate Kitch's chess-based anti-comedy and disgust at the conventions of stand-up seemed to just about baffle everybody” ︎︎︎︎
The List
“Kitch doesn’t do gags”
British Comedy Guide (again)
“absurdist & not funny..I wasn’t very impressed.”
arrse.co.uk
the unofficial voice of the british army
“the best show I saw at the Festival”
Sam Dutton whilst at Leicester Comedy Festival (2022) - Leicester, Leicestershire
“so special and inventive it’s frustrating”
Jin Hao Li
“kaufman-esque”
a bloke at the Castle Tavern - Oxford
“a Beckettian clown”
Andy Gleeks
“One of the funniest, most abstract performances I’ve seen”
Oliver at Chops Comedy Britsol
“unique, post-punk, surreal comedy”
Dylan Gwalia
“Auteur”
People’s Comedy Bristol
“by far the best person I’ve seen during red raw, really respect the work you’ve clearly put into your shit...amazing to watch...I think about it constantly.”
A bloke at The Stand - Edinburgh
“it’s the Bag-Man..I tell everyone about the Bag-Man!!”
Abby Wambaugh
“Nate was my highlight of the night, a real comedians' comedian. He splits a room and leans into that with such skill that makes it a real feature of the act. His structure and delivery is just immaculate. It was the perfect position in the night for his material. His absurdist deconstruction of comedy is something to be admired.”
Dave Shakespeare
“we turned to each other and were like: this is exactly our kind of comedy”
Two Punters Conversing at Dead Leg Comedy Oxford
“commitment to pushing his ideas to unexpected outcomes.”
Phil Jarvis
“beautiful brilliant chaos!”
A woman outside Monkey Barrel after ACMS - Edinburgh
“Thank you for making me laugh so hard I felt a bit sick. You were fucking brilliant!”
Ben in Brum
“I’d say 25% of the room are struggling to breathe from ‘creasing’, myself included.”
Elliot (repeat viewer) - Banbury Apothecary Tap
“If Stewart Lee isn’t suing, you’re lucky. Sad plagiarism.”
@SMBUAE
“he started off like Bill Hicks but then he went mad, and that’s my sort of thing really.”
A regular at Swindon Old Town Comedy Club
“Like a 30-year-old-Ben-Elton.”
Nina - Weston-Super-Mare
“The David Lynch of Comedy”
Alex Green
“definitely weird but definitely worth it”
Viewer at Queens Park Arts Centre - Aylesbury
“you are a genius”
Ash - Mates Rates Comedy
“too deep for us”
Another punter - Mates Rates Comedy
“it’s not for me..”
A bloke in the Toilets at The Bill Murray Angel - London
“..that was art.”
Julián - Oxford
“..this is dog-shit.”
someone (under their breath) in Leamington-Spa
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are watching Nate Kitch”
Dr. Vincent Lynch
“it’s really stupid, what you do”
A punter
“it’s really intellectual, what you do”
An other punter (at the same gig)
“You are the best comedian I’ve ever seen...I don’t watch much comedy.”
A someone at The Castle Pub - Oxford
“Bold...Truly stood out” - The List
“Bold. ” - Mark Watson
“Bold. ” - Nate Kitch (Me)
*Consignia (The Scotsman is a Scottish Newspaper)
† in 2020 Nate Kitch (me) was entered into the SYTYF Competition which, due to the Global Pandemic of Covid-19, was delayed to 2021 with heats being performed over “zoom” and the finals‡ being held in a covid-ly dispersed audience in Edinburgh (the capital of August) as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2021 (held in August & Scotland respectively). During the belated process we were invited to submit a video of a “live” set from pre-pandemic times of which to receive feedback from a panel of 27 industry experts - the previous quote (affixed to this footnote) is taken from the feedback of 2 of those 27 aformentioned experts, which, as I assume you gather from the quote attribution, was delivered anonymously.
‡of which he/i got to.