The towering 6' 7" figure of Colin Cole walks on stage and up to the (now seemingly tiny) microphone stand. It barely seems tall enough to pick up the sound of his dinner digesting, let alone his voice.

"Everybody see me alright?" he asks in a laid back Australian accent and in that instant the crowd are his.  Unsurprisingly a lot of his act relates to his size and he tells us of the daily torment of perfect strangers stopping him in the street just to tell him he's tall. 

On a few occasions you can see where the material is going before he gets there, and a few of the subjects covered will be of little surprise to regular comedy goers, but with his gentle-giant charm and superb deadpan delivery it really doesn't seem to matter.

However, these minor niggles are the product of an hours-later analysis and shouldn't detract from the fact that Cole is one of the most enjoyable and charismatic acts that I have had the fortune to see in quite some time.  All the nitpicking you could muster would not change the fact that the audience loved him and the cheers as he left the stage gave the act that followed a lot to live up to.  If the cheers get any louder then headlining a show will be the only place you ever see Colin Cole!

Jongleurs - Leeds - 06/05/2004 - Support Act