Vix Leyton: Chief Petty Officer (work in progress)
21 February 2026
Pettiness. We’re told it’s a character flaw - small-minded, time-wasting, beneath us. But what if that little spark of spite is actually a superpower?
In Chief Petty Officer, Vix Leyton (Spendology, The Comedy Arcade) puts pettiness on trial. Across an hour of stand-up storytelling, she unpicks history’s pettiest moments - from empires collapsing over missing chairs, to the British literally building a giant hedge to stop people smuggling salt - and asks whether they were truly ridiculous, or secretly revolutionary.
In Chief Petty Officer, Vix Leyton (Spendology, The Comedy Arcade) puts pettiness on trial. Across an hour of stand-up storytelling, she unpicks history’s pettiest moments - from empires collapsing over missing chairs, to the British literally building a giant hedge to stop people smuggling salt - and asks whether they were truly ridiculous, or secretly revolutionary.
