Comedy Reviews
Ed Byrne, Berry Theatre, Hedge End review - musing on middle-age angstMonday, 23 September 2019
Ed Byrne's new show takes a philosophical bent as he muses on middle age and fatherhood. But don't worry, he's not getting soft at the age of 47 – he's as sarcastic, caustic and self-deprecating as ever in If I'm Honest... Read more... |
Count Arthur Strong, Leeds City Varieties review - stargazing and mangled syntaxFriday, 20 September 2019
Count Arthur Strong, the character created by Steve Delaney, started life in the late 1990s and became a cult figure at the Edinburgh Fringe over several years. Radio shows and three series of a television sitcom (written with Graham Linehan) followed and now he’s taking the character back on the road with Is There Anybody Out There? Read more... |
Brydon, Mack and Mitchell, Portsmouth Guildhall review - family-friendly funTuesday, 17 September 2019
Rob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell are the host and team captains respectively of Would I Lie to You?, the long-running BBC One panel game. Now they are touring together in Town to Town, which is family-friendly fun (with occasional naughtiness from the delightfully sweary Mack). Read more... |
Romesh Ranganathan, Brighton Dome review - transgressive, edgy and very likeableMonday, 16 September 2019
One question springs immediately to mind on hearing that Romesh Ranganathan’s new stand-up show, The Cynic’s Mixtape, is touring: how does he find the time? Ranganathan has overtaken Jack Whitehall as Britain’s most media ubiquitous comic, with a deluge of TV shows and appearances, a column in the Guardian newspaper and even a recent autobiography. Read more... |
Sofie Hagen, Soho Theatre review - sex weekend in Swansea, anyone?Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Memory is a funny thing: it can get you through exams; it can comfort you or distress you; it can last a lifetime or go in an instant. In Sofie Hagen's case, her idiosyncratic one has provided material for her new show Bumswing, which started life at the Edinburgh Fringe and is now at Soho Theatre. Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Jordan Brookes/ Catherine CohenSunday, 25 August 2019
Jordan Brookes Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Jordan Brookes doesn’t tell gags. Well, he does but not in a traditional stand-up way. Rather, his jokes are subtly inserted into I’ve Got Nothing’s seemingly disjointed narrative. Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Alun Cochrane/ Sarah Keyworth/ Glenn Moore/ Sophie DukerFriday, 16 August 2019
Alun Cochrane Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 review: Arabella Weir - Does My Mum Loom Big In This?Thursday, 15 August 2019
If nothing else, Arabella Weir quips, she can thank her mother for providing the material for her first Fringe show. Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Catherine Bohart / Matt Parker / Nigel Ng / Zoë Coombs MarrWednesday, 14 August 2019
Catherine Bohart Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★ Catherine Bohart has a most unusual starting point for her new show, Lemon. Last year at the Fringe, a woman was so appalled by the Irishwoman mentioning her sexuality – she’s bisexual – in her show Immaculate that she pronounced herself “disgusted” by its sexual content. Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 reviews: Phil Wang/ London Hughes/ Jack Gleadow/ Mr. ThingTuesday, 13 August 2019
Phil Wang Pleasance Courtyard ★★★ Read more... |
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