I originally typed this as a reply to a comment on Rhys James but I thought best to pull it out into a post on its own. I'm about to descend into one of my class-based political rants and I warn you in advance.

I thought he was quite bland and indistinguishable from the usual fare of white middle-class comedians that fill the seats in most panel shows these days. I'm not trying to make some grand statement, I just find it boring, comedians from the same background generate the same type of humor. I see there being a real lack of class diversity among young comics.

Richard Herring goes on about how the cost of living in London now limits success to the middle class comics that can afford to live there. I don't know if that's true. but it's quite interesting that the comics that come through the Scottish comedy scene (Boyle, Calman, Bridges, Limond, Jupp) tend to originate from a more diverse background. Maybe more likely selected on merit rather than finances.

Anyway, I've typed much more about this subject than I planed to when I started. Basically, Rhys James was bland and unoriginal.