During rehearsals, Pritchard, who was mentored by Love, began his set by fiddling with the fly on his trousers.
“This brings me onto something actually,” he said, with Jason Manford putting his head in his hands in embarrassment.
Guided by comedians Jason Manford, David Baddiel, Nick Helm, Judi Love and Zoe Lyons, the contestants competed to see who could get the most laughs from their live audience.
“Curtis on #StandUpAndDeliver is killing me with the cringe,” one comment read, while someone else said: “Watching Curtis Pritchard doing stand up is like watching paint dry.”