'A distracted 'mad professor' demeanour masking a
dry free-wheeling wit' The Observer
'Glimmering intelligence.' Independent On Sunday
'As close as you can get to a man emotionally and philosophically disembowelling himself on stage.' The Sunday Times
Intellectually sophisticated, engagingly honest, genuinely accomplished stand-up' The Scotsman
'Consistently witty and intelligent...perceptive and very funny.'
The Stage
'His showily neurotic but deliberately dry demeanour melding neatly into the existentialist...Amstell has intelligently got the audience to see the world his own way'. Metro
'Amstell …offers a probing cerebral show… He speaks for a disconnected, disengaged chunk of Britain, sitting in their own trendily furnished boxes waiting for the world- or some meaningful cause – to come bursting through their door. It doesn't.' The Independent
'Simultaneously challenging and playful, delivered with a wonderful sharp mind. It all points to an intelligent comic who is becoming better almost by the day.' Chortle