All round to Adam's for some films and a chat

When you've got an audience where there is a high likelihood that at least half are geeks and the rest 'cult' types - wearing a hat, filling the hat with sweets and then passing the sweet filled hat around the audience is not going to do you any harm.

That's just how Adam Buxton started his performance at the Jersey Arts Centre, which turned out to be the perfect venue for his informal 'come round my house and watch some films on the laptop' type of show.

The show, billed as an 'evening with Adam Buxton' was presented by Comedy Rocks who have been making use of the Jersey Opera House's attic space to bring comedians to the island on a regular basis.

Mr Buxton spent some time before the event making a video for Jersey to help promote the Arts Centre event.

You can watch the Adam Buxton video on YouTube.

But before we got to Adam we first had a performance by the Midnight Expresso with his own unique brand of pre-programmed keyboard inspired hip hop.

Running the spectrum of important subjects starting with mirrors, running through ham sandwiches and finishing up with a dinosaur treat.

It's great to see a Jersey act emerging who can hold his own in front of a full Arts Centre crowd and the Midnight Expresso did a stellar job.

So, enter the main act - after a brief musical tribute to Mr Buxton by the Midnight Expresso and after a look at his Macbook including funnily named folders and the handing out of the hat - the show gets going.

Adam introduced the evenings proceedings as being a bit like going around to his house for dinner, but the bit before dinner is ready where he shows off some cool things on YouTube.

We were treated to a few YouTube sing-a-longs and previews of short films he has made - including a music video for the brilliant 'Middle Class festival song'. You can see a live performance of this on YouTube.

The first half flew by amazingly fast, I felt like I'd sat in my seat, started laughing, carried on laughing, laughed some more and then stood up for the interval.

A real highlight was the YouTube comments, as Adam said himself "you need a thick skin to read your own YouTube comments."

Fortunately for us, not only does he have a thick skin but he also has Photoshop and an audience to share some of the better comments with.

After the interval the set had been changed, a sofa and chair were in the middle with a table containing a hat filled with questions and the Macbook.

Out comes BBC Jersey's Carrie Cooper with Adam Buxton for an 'intimate Q&A' that included a live demonstration of eating Jaffa Cakes, confirmation that the Adam & Joe show will return to BBC 6music in November, more YouTube fun and another comment trawl.

Carrie did a great job sitting on stage throughout the second half engaging with Adam and the audience, pushing comments forward and calling on people to embarrass themselves - many hid.

I even got the random question I posted to Facebook answered: "Why don't you dye your beard at Christmas and pretend to be a cool Santa Clause - Buckles Clause."

His response involved his beard going grey but other areas still very much not.

Then after the show Adam spent ten minutes signing an autograph for and talking to an old man with a funny accent who has spent most of his life collecting autographs as a memento of shows he has seen.

He is currently on book number 129 with that particular page including the signature of Carrie Cooper, The Midnight Expresso and Adam Buxton.

As with all things I posted an instant reaction to Facebook as they are usually the most honest - before you've had time to analyse.

"just back from seeing adam buxton at the arts centre and he was effortlessly brilliant. great support set from jersey's midnight expresso and Carrie cooper looked at home in the interviewers chair. "

It wasn't just me and Autograph man that had a good time though, the audience reaction was amazing and on Facebook Brobot II had shared his thoughts within an hour of the show ending.

"Brobot II: Adam Buxton is one funny human being. Thanks Comedy Rocks, that was awesome!"