Matt Green: Too Much Information

Baby-faced stand-up Matt Green has flow confident and smooth as the best of comics. But it's not enough to smuggle past audiences the shortcomings of Too Much Information – a show that does nothing to disprove that old cliché about comics dreaming up their Fringe routines on the train to Edinburgh.

The myriad distractions of the modern world is the asininely broad theme of this fleetingly amusing musing on all from smart phones to the internet and next summer's Olympics. Green admittedly scores some good laughs out of highlighting the absurdity of London 2012's official mascots Wenlock and Mandeville—two steel drops from Bolton brought to life by a magic rainbow—though in fairness it simpy requires relaying their ludicrous design-by-committee back story.

You can practically hear a mass groan after Green clumsily works his way from a line about being “a news junkie” towards a shockingly weak phone hacking scandal gag. Slightly better is his revelation about once appearing in Heat magazine's “crap spot of the week” section after being photographed by someone who recognised him from a turn in a Kellogs Crunchy Nut Cornflakes ad.

With laughs palpably getting thin on the ground, Green needs to improve drastically on a finale where he recounts being interrupted during a love-making session with his girlfriend in Singapore by a street carnival outside, which serves only to bring him round full-circle to the subject of distractions. Distracting is about as firm a compliment as this show can be paid.