Quotes & Press — Nate Kitch

What they say about; (me)

Best Newcomer 2024 Nominee - Comedian’s Choice Awards

Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality 2024 Nominee

︎︎︎︎︎ Mervyn Stutter - Pick of the Fringe

︎︎︎︎ Beyond The Joke

︎︎︎︎(*) The Scotsman

︎︎︎︎ The List

10/10 John Fleming’s Blog

“Nate Kitch takes the guardrails off.. pushing at the edges of what stand-up can be defined as.. is this where the cult begins?”
Chortle

“It’s comedy theatre, arty, stylish and cool. And there’s something extraordinarily watchable about Kitch“
Beyond the Joke

“he's an inveterate deconstructer of the form, helping you see conventional stand-up's limitations anew“
Jay Richardson

“transcends mere jokes...he creates his own kind of adorable comedy carnage. Go see.”
The Scotsman

“unique”
Chortle

“a masterclass in ripping up the comedic rulebook and thriving in an environment of total comic chaos… and freedom”
Entertainment Now

“A comic has to work up a powerful amount of trust in his funny, before he can randomly leave the room and chat to people outside without losing us, his audience. Nate does.”
The Scotsman

“compelling rhythm and artistry“
Fest

“Nate Kitch cannot be contained by mere architecture“
Claire Smith

“hints of Simon Munnery...offbeat...something very special”
Beyond the Joke

“Inventive leftfield comic”
The Scotsman

“A real WTF? Comic”
Chortle

“The Captain Beefheart of the Oxfordshire comedy scene”
Wil Hodgson

“self-aware, freewheeling anti-comedy with a wink”
Three Weeks Edinburgh

“really good at comedy”
ACMS

“To suggest he breaks a fourth wall would miss a bigger point. Nate treats his audience as equals but the structure of and in rooms with disdain. Many comics can make me laugh. Only a handful have left my jaw on the floor as they do it.”
Rob Milner - Something Comedy

“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

“Of the thousands of comedians performing at Edinburgh, go and see one who is truly pushing the boundaries of what comedy can be. Some will be laughing start to finish, others won’t know what’s hit them, but regardless of your personal experience, you will remember this show.“
R. Goodman

“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

“None traditional standup in the best way possible. The superbly written jokes at a breakneck pace left me reeling on laughter and begging for more. Alongside this is the best non-tradition audience interaction I’ve seen in a long time. One of the best shows I saw at fringe, and I couldn’t recommend him enough!!”(Does anyone have an extension lead?)
Harrison Richards

“it’s the Bag-Man..I tell everyone about the Bag-Man!!”
Abby Wambaugh

“Nate has the biggest comedy balls I have ever seen. This anarchic hour is not for everybody - clearly he is trying to take things in a different direction and is not shy of deconstructing his set live on stage.
But if you are up for a decidedly unsafe comedy adventure, Nate's your man.”
Iain Row

“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

“Not your traditional stand-up comedian telling a list of jokes, but clever, well thought out comedy, right from the off. A really unexpected gem! Smart audience interaction too. Definitely recommended. Go and see!“
Keeley

“ 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.” - Chortle

“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.

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