Nice mention by Jay Richardson on Chortle for my hosting abilities at America Stands Up, part of the wonderful Glasgow International Comedy Festival:
Established as the show’s regular compere, UK-based San Franciscan Scott Capurro is an unlikely MC, stealing focus with interludes that feel like a headliner’s routines, his playful, devilish reflections on race, religion and sexuality creating a charged, lively atmosphere that would overwhelm less assured performers trying to follow him.
That evergreen sense of mischief in his crowd interrogations, desire to probe boundaries and calculated conflation of taboos – questioning how non-gay the most religious parts of the Middle East are – is an irrepressible assault, countering the possibility of offence with the frequent shift and democracy of his targets. He slyly punches up, punches down with impunity, but mostly punches low and lingers on the crime scene, his eyes sparkling at any intakes of breath that his near-the-knuckle sex reminisces provoke.