If you aren’t familiar with actor and comedian Nick Mohammed firstly why not and secondly you soon will be. It was recently announced that he will be one of the stars of the upcoming series of Celebrity Traitors. He doesn’t reveal much about his contribution onstage but he does accurately describe the creepy castle-based set as if “Dracula got all his stuff from Dunelm.” In his latest tour, Show Pony, Mohammed is very much two-pronged. He performs in the guise of his regular alter ego, squeaky voiced know-all Mr Swallow, but also talks about his actual career outside Swallow, appearing in Hollywood films such as The Martian alongside Matt Damon to scoring a success in soccer sitcom Ted Lasso. It is an odd balance to strike but it somehow works in a high energy evening that also mixes magic with extended comic set-pieces. A running gag is how he accidentally got his foot in the door through positive discrimination. Producers thought he was Asian when he is in fact Cypriot/Caribbean. He even removes a sock to reveal the actual foot. Previous tours have featured major Houdini-style set-pieces such as escaping from a locked water tank, so by comparison this feels more back-to-basics, but it also means that there are more opportunities for him to be personal. We even get the back story of who inspired the needy, nerdy Swallow, a drama teacher who hoovered up the lead roles, regularly upstaging the pupils. The fast pace never flags, except when Mohammed/Swallow embarks on an over-extended anecdote about a nightmare Swallow cameo at the BAFTA Awards in front of a baffled star-studded audience including Prince William, Emma Stone and Christopher Nolan. On roller skates. It feels as if he is telling to story more to exorcise his own demons than to entertain his fans. But this is a minor niggle in a show full of giggles and moments that make you gasp, from gags about his fixation with the soft drink Shloer to a miraculous Rubik’s Cube trick that sets the tone for numerous surprises. Imagine a dorky Derren Brown. Just when you think you know what is going on things go in a different direction. Show Pony sometimes feels in danger of treading a thin line between being well-calibrated and chucking everything at the wall and hoping that it sticks, but Mohammed’s sparkly-jacketed charisma pulls it off. He even managed to cover up the chaos when a mind-reading segment misfired because a volunteer had clearly been drinking more than Shloer. I thought Richmond Theatre was an odd place to have a press night, but then heading home I remembered that Ted Lasso features the antics of AFC Richmond. Possibly a coincidence, but given the way Mohammed's brain functions, it’s probably part of his genius masterplan. Now touring. Tickets & Information here: nickmohammedlive.com