By John Gibson. Venue 139 Central at Assembly Roxy

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Rob Auton indulges in flights of fancy.  This is ironic because the premise of this year’s show is that he is an estate agent on Jupiter telling a prospective buyer about Earth.  You might presume that this is just a way to give structure to his surreal observations and wholesome rambling but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

Since it was my first time seeing him I can’t help but feel that he would have got more laughs by focusing on the material.  He seemed to understand this himself when he explained to a very appreciative audience (in a horribly sweaty room) that the weirdest heckle he ever got was ‘You’re better than you think you are!’.