Comedy

Cristian Boscheri’s comedy sits somewhere between stand-up, clowning and physical theatre. He calls it x-comedy, a blend of self-referential humour, small-scale physical comedy and play with the audience. He is fascinated by comedy as a language, whether purely physical, purely verbal or a mix of both, and by how it interacts with movement, dance and audience participation.

He has performed more than a hundred sets on stand-up, alternative comedy and storytelling stages in the Netherlands, the UK and Italy, in English, Italian and Dutch. In 2025 he was a finalist in both the Comedy Talent Award at TivoliVredenburg and the English Comedy Talent Award at De Kargadoor.

Comedy also runs through his full-length shows. Heavy Meta (2026) is his first full hour of x-comedy and comes close to stand-up. It follows a comedian who loves self-referential humour and feels guilty for not having relatable things to talk about, or a higher message. Pleaser (2025) and Stream of Unconsciousness (2024) are hybrids, where the laughs come through breaking, clowning, mime and spoken word, and from the audience itself. Lately he has been challenging himself to write more relatable material, the very thing the comedian in Heavy Meta feels guilty about not having.