{"id":906600,"date":"2026-09-26T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906600\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:36:18","slug":"phil-wang-uh-oh-review-how-to-achieve-an-eighth-of-an-orgasm-and-other-millennial-myths-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906600\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Wang: Uh Oh review \u2013 how to achieve an eighth of an orgasm, and other millennial myths | Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots has changed in the world of Phil Wang<\/a> since his last tour. He has mastered the art of growing a moustache, for one. He\u2019s bought a house in a \u201ccool\u201d part of London, where he lives with his houseplants and, oh, the world has tipped considerably to the right. So what does this mean for the ever-even-tempered comedian, now officially in the territory of an ageing millennial?<\/p>\n

Largely, more of the observational routines that have made his name. We get his classic riffs on what it means to be both British and Chinese, his thoughts on gentrification \u2013 you best believe he wants a Gail\u2019s in Peckham \u2013 and his resentment at finding his views becoming progressively less progressive. All of it is gently mocking: mainly of himself, but of others, too, to varying degrees of effect. A bit about cyclists, who are apparently asking for a death wish by venturing out on a 2D vehicle, feels more snarky than he may have intended. But his David Bowie impression could use a stage all of its own.<\/p>\n

It might not push the boundaries. But, at his heights, Wang is a king of linguistics and loopholes. Why, he asks, is being described as a person of colour perfectly acceptable, but \u201ccoloured person\u201d deeply offensive? Of course he thinks about his girlfriend when he masturbates \u2013 it\u2019s just that his mind wanders to whether she will walk in and catch him doing it. Revelling in life\u2019s mundanity, he makes it bloom into material.<\/p>\n

It is a show strung together by the nagging feeling that things have got worse. Long gone are the days of sweeping millennial myths, when we were told we could achieve one-eighth of an orgasm through a spidery hand gesture performed by our classmates. Now, he\u2019s at the stage of mourning the loss of his once-slender neck. There\u2019s something bleakly moving about Wang\u2019s grownup outlook: the realisation that everything he thought those wild parties and long conversations with his parents were leading to was actually just the thing. It\u2019s a lesson in living in the moment. And a taste of the halcyon days of youth comes at the close of a pondering show, if not a consistently revelatory one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lots has changed in the world of Phil Wang since his last tour. He has mastered the art…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-906600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}