He doesn’t plan to do it while Tape Face is going strong, though. He wouldn’t do it, of course, but it might be a good way to promote the event: “30 nights,30 cats”.
He might even threaten to kill a cat onstage. It would resemble a children’s magic show but he would talk about summoning up a demon and ask for a human sacrifice. Wills already has the idea for a month of shows. This unnamed character is a sinister magician. There are Mr Bean cafés in Japan.” As the interview finishes he talks of another idea he is working on that maybe reflects his darker side. Wills will not go into detail about the reason for the split but maintains that it was nothing to do with the pressure of work.Īpart from more dates around the world after London his masterplan remains under wraps but he hints at animations and merchandising. He recently separated from his wife, burlesque performer Lili La Scala, with whom he has a young son. Perhaps he wishes every aspect of his life ran as smoothly as his career. “It’s a five-minute gag that got out of control,” he laughs. “I wanted to do a silent act but I couldn’t stop talking.” Taping up his mouth was a spontaneous attempt to shut himself up. It’s a shock to discover that he was once more verbal. Twitstorm review: Phew, the middle-class white man was right all along Ten years later I’m at the Garrick.” Read more “I first came to London in 2007 and did a terrible show on the South Bank. He was soon travelling the world as a street entertainer. He started performing to friends and, aged 19, went to circus school in Christchurch. He was unsettled at school so he was taught at home and when he was 12 he was given a magic set and was instantly hooked. Wills’s story is the ultimate running-away-to-the-circus tale. “Afterwards she threw it on the ground and broke it, so I sent her an invoice via Twitter.” When he did this on America’s Got Talent it did not go quite to plan: “Simon Cowell was supposed to do it but Mel B did it.” Her scowl suggested she wasn’t used to wearing a toilet seat. One horse-related sketch involves an audience member wearing a toilet seat around their neck. Tape measures become phallic swords, the stage becomes a crazy golf course. The Garrick is in part an end-of-chapter greatest hits package, pulling together classic routines. In Vegas a guy was an ex-stripper and dropped a three-minute routine to my music.
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They can do no wrong.” There is clearly a skill to picking the right person to do a sexy Full Monty dance to a Tom Jones soundtrack. “They know they are not going to get told off or bullied,” Wills explains. What is amazing is that while the thought of this might be buttock-clenchingly scary for many, even reluctant conscripts rise to the occasion. Some fans even become part of the performance, plucked from their seats to join in. His shows are incredible, joyous occasions, attracting audiences of all ages.
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Plus there’s usually a live band, who are fab. The upside is that, with so few performances, they always get the big names headlining, with unfailingly impressive support. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTīit of a shame that shows here are so few and far between – usually about once a month – but there’s no place more beautiful than the Union Chapel to see comedy in London.
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