Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It doesn’t seem five minutes since Tiffany Stevenson was wowing the crowds at this year’s Edinburgh Festival and yet in the month since she has been to America to discuss a film, reaffirmed her belief that Donald Trump is bad for women as well as others who may share the land of the free but somehow great for comedians and that somewhere along the line Giant Hogs are as dangerous a prospect in Louisiana as the possibility of Isis striking a direct hit in the swamps and that the great state relies heavily upon guns, lots of guns, weapons carried in full view and more than likely allowed in the disturbing scenes associated with a particular porn empire.

Tiffany Stevenson never holds back, this is her weapon, her wonderful drive that makes her comedy amongst the very best in the stand up world, the shadowy one, the one where the tours and the endless energetic crusades through the British countryside and ceaseless illuminated motorways are as much a way of life as Donald Trump’s smug face appearing in your worst nightmares. It is a journey that brought this talented and observant comedian to Liverpool’s Unity Theatre and one in which the number seven is very much the core theme.

This is Ms. Stevenson’s first tour that has brought her to the city, one that many of her fans have been clambering, chomping at the bit to realise happen and with the autumn chill in the air stirring the blood and strengthening the resolve to get through yet another year, Tiffany Stevenson took the audience through the events of the attacks on Paris and the crass absurdity of some television newsreaders and reporters as they personalised the devastating attacks on The Bataclan, the moronic use of the interjection of moral superiority that only serves a purpose of one up-man-ship and the pain of having to listen to the sermons that come with the cult of celebrity as they also moralise about the way we should grieve or show emotion.

This though is where Tiffany Stevenson excels and as she says if you cannot handle her at the digits up the bum, you don’t deserve her on politics and with the thrust of her own Paris story, one infinitely more entertaining than a picture by Kay Burley, finishing the show, the first night of the tour was visibly enjoyed by all in the Unity Theatre.

To finally get Ms. Stevenson in Liverpool as part of a tour is a big coup for the Liverpool Comedy Festival and one that must be repeated very soon.

Ian D. Hall