He recently moved from Southwest London, and when he lived in Southwest London he was in a gang. To start off Acaster tells you a little bit about himself. He mocks celebrity gossip more successfully in four minutes than anyone else I’ve ever seen, before telling you the real reason he’s here: to tell you about his friend who works in a casino, and killed two people by mistake. Pedro Cortez, the eleventh and eighteenth miner out of the mine, was days of the week socks, specifically on the wrong day so his socks don’t forget who’s in charge. He then talks about Jimmy Sanchez, who has hot drinks with hot meals. Once the show starts for real, the lights are up and someone’s on stage with a mic, standing up so the show can begin, Acaster kicks it off right away with some celebrity gossip about Jorge Gallaguillos getting kicked out of a karaoke bar. “Represent” is going to be a stand-up special about friendship, the non-refundability of time, the beauty of jury duty, the best Christmas of his life, and an existential question of doubt.
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Question number two: “But what came before that?” This two and half minute gag about what came before the big bang is turned into one of the more amusing meta openings to a stand-up special that perfectly prepares you for what episode two of Acaster’s series Repertoire is going to be. “The universe began with a big bang, but what came before that?” Little Acaster was religious as a child, and since he believed in God at the time, that was his answer. The first line of “Represent,” delivered in a blacked out theater, is a simple question. Today, we’re moving onto some lighter, simpler, less existential material. Yesterday we watched The Double Life of Pat Springleaf (shout out to all my Kieślowski heads out there), learning about the beauty of loopholes, the laziness of Google, the beauty of the cardboard box, and the tragedy of an undercover police officer. Day two of our series on James Acasters’ Repertoire.