Ted Lasso fans best not go to the Just for Laughs solo show Mr. Swallow: Show Pony expecting one of the series’s stars, the Emmy-nominated Nick Mohammed, to reprise his role as rival soccer-team coach Nate.

Mohammed’s character on Ted Lasso is forever brooding and morose and feeling betrayed. Mohammed’s work in Mr. Swallow: Show Pony is anything but.

Attired in a glittering gold lamé jacket, Mohammed speaks frenetically in a high-pitched tone and displays the sort of high-end energy that sounds like way too much helium intake. Mohammed’s act here is mentalism, magic, music, drama and — oh yeah — comedy with raucous crowd interaction.

Simply put, the show, running until Saturday at Le Gesù, is rollickingly hysterical and about as original as anything ever assembled on a JFL stage — which is saying something in light of past fest performances from Mr. Methane and Stevie (the Regurgitator) Starr.

Without giving away too much about his show, Mohammed’s Mr. Swallow explains, with self-deprecating wit, how he must carry the aspirations of England’s South Asian community on his shoulders — even though Mohammed is not South Asian as many presume: his mom is from Cyprus and his dad from Trinidad. He also notes, removing a shoe and sock, that he has been mysteriously endowed with a white foot to help him get his foot in the door of a lily-white cultural........

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