When you have nearly 300,000 Instagram followers who click on your posts for 30 seconds of comedic joy to escape from relentless doomscrolling, there's a lot of pressure to be funny. Not just virtually, but in person too.
Fortunately, when Zach Margs took to the stage in London’s West End last night for his first show since back surgery in the summer (hence its name, Zach’s Back), he had the audience very much on side.
Like the best of his peers, including comic Mark Maier, who warmed up the audience with his witty take on Jew-ish idiosyncrasies, Margs has a knack of unearthing the hilarity from the mundane. He kicked off the show by sharing a seat-squirming story of his doctor advising him on the best positions for post-back surgery sex – while his parents were sat on either side of his hospital bed.
And so it continued – there were tales of his dad’s ill-fated attempts to take a selfie for his WhatsApp profile; being at the receiving end of a grumpy former boss (who, interestingly, was in the audience); and the time he convinced himself that the only reason he was ghosted after a perfect first date was because said date must have died following botched cosmetic surgery…
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