Andrew Lawrence recently had a pop at the quality of the guests on The John Bishop Show, suggesting that a diversity policy has meant that comedians who aren’t necessarily that good are getting edited to look good on television. I don’t think that Lawrence named names so I don't know, but maybe one of the people he was referring to was possibly Phil Wang, who has a Chinese father and an English mother. Wang doesn’t need to be edited to look good because he is good. His BBC1 routine was more geared towards primetime - gags about UKIP – but it was a neat nursery slope into Wang’s World (hey, not a bad title for a show, have that one on me). The subjects he deals with might be familiar ones – sex, race – but in a longer set such as his forthcoming Fringe show Philth, Wang goes to interesting places with them. Don’t just take my word for it, take the word of Time Out, who said he is the “master of the intellectual dick joke”.

Phil Wang is at The Pleasance until Aug 30, tickets here.

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