Fool Moon

Eshaan Akbar opens a poll of the London club room, asking who lives there versus who was born there, and turns the thinning applause into a bit about the country’s real immigration problem: people from the Home Counties moving in and opening Gail’s bakeries in Brixton. From there, he dismantles the panic from Brexit towns and Reform cities about needing a stab vest in the capital, pointing out that for a kid raised in Whitechapel, the actual no-go zone was Shoreditch. That class-and-postcode friction carries into a childhood routine about watching his dad pull up to the school gates in a Honda Accord next to a classmate who arrived by helicopter three times a year, leaving an eleven-year-old Akbar, whose only helicopter reference was Gulf War news coverage, unsure whether to run away or collect aid. Clocking in at fifty minutes, Fool Moon was filmed at London’s Top Secret Comedy Club and released free on YouTube in March 2026. It follows his 2024 special The Pretender and his 2025 UK tour I Can’t Get No Satisfakshaan, with the former wealth manager and Sex Education actor working the room like someone who also co-hosts a monthly crowd-work night on the same stage.