Nat’s What I Reckon: Uncooked is a chaotic and unpredictable comedy show presented by none other than Nat, a YouTuber and culinary comedian with a lot of strong, passionate opinions on jar sauce, microwaves, and mental health issues. Nat’s new comedy show presents the audience with a fresh taste of bad egg roll taste, and I adored every moment of it.

Nat opens his routine with a few Facebook and YouTube comments he received. They questioned his appearance, his content, and his gender. One comment suggests (rather obscenely) that he should get back to making cooking videos. The stage is then set for a parody cooking show segment. Nat prepares a Caesar salad egg roll live on stage using a microwave, and an untrustworthy appliance called an Egg Master. The result is unholy, and the crowd is left reeling in revulsion, laughter, and applause. I joined in mirth myself.

Nat’s show also features a convoluted and deliberately nonsensical parody of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. During this segment, Nat alleges that Toyota owners knew that the pandemic was coming. While it is a funny segment, this is where the show could have gone further. Conspiracy theories are one of the most comedically exploitable phenomena in present-day society and I expected a far more outrageous conspiracy theory. But the lab coat and stethoscope were great costume additions.

Nat is deeply passionate about mental health advocacy, and he makes a profound effort to show that through his comedy. In the middle of the show, an ad appears on the screen. The ad is for ‘Terry’s Wellness Retreat,’ a very unorthodox and downright destructive mental health retreat that encourages its patients to practise total denial. This was the strongest point in the show because with the use of comedy Nat ridicules toxic approaches to mental health issues. Humour that ridicules toxic ideas is always something I look for in a good comedy show, and mental health doesn’t get as much attention as more political matters. So, that was good to see.

But is the show any good? I would say that it is. It definitely isn’t the strongest or sharpest comedy routine I’ve ever seen, but it is nevertheless an enjoyable experience. I would say that you probably need to know a bit about who Nat’s What I Reckon is in order to fully understand it. It didn’t exceed some of my expectations, but it did a decent job at giving the audience a laugh at simpler, everyday life experiences such as cooking and reading hate comments on the internet.