Review: This Is The Funniest Google Slides Presentation You'll Ever See
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Last Updated 17 February 2026
How many times has someone told you — the tears of laughter still glimmering in their eyes — "I saw an amazingly funny powerpoint presentation last night!'?
Well I saw an amazingly funny powerpoint presentation last night (Google Slides actually), and it hardly even had any pictures. ta-da! is uncomplicated in concept, unfathomable in execution. Railing against the 'off-the-cuff/chewing the fat' illusion of the commonplace stand-up, Josh Sharp (an adorable Southern-drawled US comic, who wrote and starred in the less-than-adorably-titled Dicks: The Musical) jackhammers his way through 2,000 Google Slides ("industry standard") in 75 minutes — proving he's learnt every last drop of this runaway presentation/group therapy sesh. It is miraculously brilliant too. Step aside, Dave Gorman: there's a new clicker in town.
By Sharp's own admission, the content — which orbits around repressed adolescent sexuality, a terminally ill mum, and a near-death experience of his own — isn't exactly avant garde, and yet the double act of a pas de deux twixt comedian and slides will leave you slack-jawed — a laugh a minute second lecture that doggedly tinkers with subtext, dialect, word play, letter play — at one point, even butt play.
Vitally, the stories are uproariously good. A bit on the perks of a wrestling party prompts the aforementioned tears (bizarrely, it also prompts two audience members to smooch), and who could forget an overly-understanding doctor's take on Sharp's chlamydia diagnosis ("It's a sign you're making friends"). The climactic reveal is sheer magic, and the callbacks keep rolling even as the good people of 'Sew Heux Fea-tuh' file out the exit.
Josh Sharp is a comedian who doesn't know when to stop, and who in their right mind would ever want him to?
Josh Sharp: ta-da!, Soho Theatre, until 28 February.
