Phil Ellis: Bath Mat review – Taskmaster goof celebrates his midlife failures

The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow The northerner finds the funny in banalities with this raucous compendium of all-in-it-together bants Phil Ellis has been watching Netflix specials, and has noticed that all the alpha standups now have a hype-man to big them up pre-show. Here, then, is his own version, a shuffling fellow northerner (comic Tom Short) deadpanning a list of Ellis’s non-achievements in a threadbare American accent, punctuated by gunshot SFX and an airhorn. The modest success of a Task…