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wrote, "Robertson's charismatic, stream of consciousness, pop culture infused performances can veer assuredly between homicidal 20th century despots and, for example, a retooling of the Little Match Girl fable – she still dies, but because she's six years into a three year
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Robertson's main performing outside of his stand-up work is the point-and-click 'live-action video game' The Dark Room, a comedy show where the audience compete with
Robertson, in his alter ego as 'The Guardian' of a virtual Dark Room resembling a 1980s text-based
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adventure video game, which the audience tries to escape. Players are selected from the audience are invited to choose between multiple options on screen to advance, and escape the initial room they awake to find themselves in.
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describing him as 'the only reason to watch the show') lead him to become a full-time presenter, notable for his catchphrase 'hi-def, high-five!', that also ended the show's final episode in June 2016.
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Maria Von Trapp – is edgy, intelligent, and smoothly delivered, though the appearance of a ukulele feels like a hangover from an earlier show, and a late moment of sentiment is a touch too contrived."
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as "astute, amoral comedy for the morbidly inclined," saying that "his material — whether he's dissecting modern drama or advocating the murder of
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Szabo, Sarah (15 May 2011). "Stand up is a great place for the clever, the keen and the deranged".
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