Grace Petrie

Vittorio Angelone arrives in Brighton with a title that sounds like both a complaint and a challenge. You Can’t Say Nothing Any More takes aim at the increasingly complicated territory surrounding comedy, censorship, offence and the ever-shifting boundaries of what audiences are prepared to laugh at.

Angelone has become one of the more distinctive voices in British stand-up, combining a deliberately unruly stage persona with an acute awareness of the mechanics of comedy. Born in Italy and raised in Belfast, he originally trained as a classical musician before abandoning that path for stand-up. Since then, his career has expanded rapidly through live shows, podcasts and online clips, building an audience well beyond the traditional comedy-club circuit.

The new show appears to take the familiar argument that comedy has become too restricted and turn it into something more complicated. Angelone is interested not simply in what comedians can say, but in…