Comedy Reviews
Aziz Ansari, Eventim Apollo review - show follows his #MeToo momentThursday, 04 April 2019
Most people in the UK know American actor and stand-up Aziz Ansari from Parks and Recreation, where he played the sarcastic and underachieving local government official Tom Haverford. Comedy fans will also know him as a successful club comic on both US coasts, and from his Netflix specials. Read more... |
Ed Gamble, The Stand review - amiable hour touching on personal issuesFriday, 15 March 2019
Ed Gamble starts the hour by telling us why his latest show is called Blizzard; he and a bunch of comic friends we stranded in New York by bad weather and it made the news - yet, strangely, the headline wasn’t a play on his name - a gift for hacks - but on the monicker of one of his mates. Cue faux outrage. Read more... |
Lou Sanders, Soho Theatre review - shame put under the spotlightTuesday, 26 February 2019
Have you ever felt the hot shame of saying or doing the wrong thing? Not just embarrassment – that's for amateurs, says Lou Sanders in her wonderfully honest and revealing show Shame Pig, in which she essays some of her life's red-faced moments. Read more... |
Sheeps, Soho Theatre review - sketch comedy with a touch of the surrealTuesday, 19 February 2019
Sheeps, the sketch comedy threesome, had never really gone away but when they performed Live and Loud Selfie Sex Harry Potter at the Edinburgh Fringe last year after a four-year absence, it was called a comeback. More a welcome reunion, as its members – Liam Williams, Daran Johnson and Alastair Roberts – had been busy doing solo projects. Read more... |
Adam Riches Is The Guy Who..., Drink, Shop & Do review - super-suave Lothario on the prowlThursday, 07 February 2019
The first line of this show is “I'm the guy who you meet right after you come out of a long-term relationship.” On the night I see The Guy Who..., Adam Riches has three tries with it before he meets his target, a woman who has been dumped by a long-standing boyfriend. Read more... |
Lost Voice Guy, Soho Theatre review - Britain's Got Talent winner finds the funny in disabilityMonday, 28 January 2019
Lost Voice Guy – aka Lee Ridley – won Britain’s Got Talent last year. He's a unique talent in that his cerebral palsy means he is unable to speak, and so he delivers his comedy through a synthesizer controlled via his iPad. Read more... |
Daniel Sloss, Leicester Square Theatre review - toxic masculinity examinedMonday, 21 January 2019
Daniel Sloss's latest show is called X, to denote his 10th show. The Scottish comic started in comedy as a teenager in 2009 when a lot of his material was knob and wank gags, but in recent years his work has had a progressively edgier feel, including shows that delved into his sister's death from cerebral palsy and the childhood grooming from which he had a lucky escape. Read more... |
James Acaster, Phoenix Theatre review - a masterclass in comedyWednesday, 16 January 2019
There's a story in James Acaster's superb new show at the Phoenix Theatre which hangs on him being the first UK comic to shoot several Netflix specials. He doesn't tells us this to boast; far from it. Read more... |
Leicester Comedy Festival Gala Preview Show review - an entertaining mixed bagMonday, 14 January 2019
Suited and booted, Tom Allen and Suzi Ruffell presented this gala preview to the Leicester Comedy Festival, which is now in its 26th year and starts next month. Read more... |
The Catherine Tate Show Live, Wyndham's Theatre review - sketch show favourites on stageWednesday, 09 January 2019
In 2016 Catherine Tate performed live comedy for the first time since her Edinburgh Fringe days at the beginning of her career, and the show was deservedly both a critical and box-office success. Read more... |
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