Tom Rosenthal: Manhood

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Comedy (stand-up)

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Description

Let the beaky boy from Friday Night Dinner (Channel 4) and Plebs (ITV2) tell you the story of how he spent his life trying to avenge the theft of his foreskin. Previous winner of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and nominated for Best Breakthrough Artist at the British Comedy Awards. 'High energy, impressive and precociously smart' (Guardian). 'Like a young Mark Watson, he packs in a very high degree of laughs per minute' (List). 'I don't know whether you want to sell it as a whole show about your circumcision' (Tim Key).

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The Guardian (3/5 stars) 99 days ago

Dick jokes are as old as comedy, but few – Richard Herring with docu-comedy Talking Cock excepted – dedicate whole shows to the subject. Step forward Plebs and Friday Night Dinner star Tom Rosenthal, with an hour-long diatribe about his own diminished equipment. Rosenthal was circumcised as an infant, a...

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The List (4/5 stars) 102 days ago

A hilarious hour that might leave you cross-legged...

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Theatre Weekly (4/5 stars) 102 days ago

The very best stand-up comedy comes from a comedian that’s speaking on a subject they have personal experience of. So, for Tom Rosenthal his own circumcision and his anger about it being forced upon him at a very young age makes his new show, Manhood, a very personal, but totally riotous hour of comedy.

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Chortle (3/5 stars) 102 days ago

Tom Rosenthal apologises if he’s misused people’s affection for the sitcoms he’s in to bait them into coming to what’s effectively a TED talk. And a TED talk about male circumcision at that. ...

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The Student Newspaper 103 days ago

Manhood is a solid, well-rehearsed show and which brings to light an issue not often discussed. If you enjoy Rosenthal’s other work and are on board with anatomical humour as well as meaningful discussion about human rights and trauma, then this show should feature highly on your Fringe to-do list.

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Edinburgh Festivals Magazine (3/5 stars) 103 days ago

Tom Rosenthal doesn't have a foreskin. This really concerns him, and he really wants you to know all about it. Tom welcomes us to his TedTalk and this is truly what Manhood is - a one-hour dissemination of the hotly-debated world of male circumcision. The...

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