Self professed ‘Fat Chinese Man lookalike’ Michael McIntyre was the comedy buzz of 2008/9. With a 54 date arena tour of the UK (including a brief stopover at Dublin’s Olympia theatre) the funnyman played to over 1million people. His DVD Hello Wembley saw him sell over a million copies and rocket to the top of DVD sales for Christmas 2009. So, when McIntyre announced he was doing a run of ‘Work in Progress’ gigs at London’s Leicester Square theatre, tickets were snapped up by fans. Not to mention the exceptionally low price of £10 being less than the price of buying his DVD. The venue was brilliant, just off Leicester Sq, the basement comedy club could hold about 200-300 people and was perfectly intimate. The show had been moved from a smaller room in the same venue which could hold less than 100, and as a result extra tickets had … There’s more →