Comedy Reviews
Greg Davies, touringSaturday, 13 October 2012
Greg Davies strolls onstage to the sound of Fatboy Slim’s remix of Wildchild’s “Renegade Master”, the “44 year old renegade master,” as he drily observes. From there he initially dwells on middle age and the way his stomach has expanded. His manner is so genial that his gigantic size - 6’8” – is not especially immediate or imposing. Clad in jeans and a black T-shirt he achieves the rare feat, throughout the 90-minute set, of being likeable and funny without ever utilising viciousness. Read more... |
Michael Mittermeier, Soho TheatreFriday, 12 October 2012
There must be something on the air; a few foreign comics (including Edinburgh Comedy Awards newcomer winner Daniel Simonsen) were performing in English at this year's Edinburgh Fringe and now one of them, Germany's Michael Mittermeier, has brought his Fringe show, A German on Safari, to London for a short residency at Soho... Read more... |
Danny Bhoy, Bloomsbury TheatreThursday, 11 October 2012
Danny Bhoy is big in Scotland and Canada and huge Down Under, as they say, but is a surprisingly unfamiliar name to many. I'm not sure, other than a lack of a television presence, why he's not as well-known throughout the UK as he should be: he's an extremely affable, laidback Scot whose brand of observational, conversational comedy is easy on the ear. Read more... |
Kevin Bridges, Hammersmith ApolloMonday, 01 October 2012
Kevin Bridges, an affable young Glaswegian, has had a meteoric rise in comedy. He started gigging at 17, made his solo Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2009, where he played in a 50-seater and earned an Edinburgh Comedy Awards newcomer nomination, and returned the following year to a sold-out run in a 700-seat theatre. Read more... |
Michael McIntyre, O2 ArenaThursday, 27 September 2012
First a confession: I've never been a great fan of Michael McIntyre. He's a nice bloke for sure, works at his craft and is a slick performer with a huge following, both live and on television. Plus - and this is one of the best compliments I can pay to a stand-up because it's a difficult skill to pull off - he's one of the best MCs in the business. Read more... |
Stewart Lee presents John Cage's Indeterminacy, Cafe OTOWednesday, 26 September 2012
John Cage is funny: this much we know. The deadpan prankster at the heart of 20th-century artistic experimentalism was always about the inadvertent punchline, the chuckle that comes from unexpected disjunction, the relief that comes from reminders of the absurdity of reality, as much as he was ever about any engagement with progress, technology, the transcendent. Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: James Acaster/David Trent/Daniel Simonsen/Ben TargetSaturday, 25 August 2012
James Acaster: Prompt, Pleasance Courtyard ***Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Tony LawFriday, 24 August 2012
Tony Law: Maximum Noonsense, The StandRead more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Alfie Moore/Eddie Pepitone/Claudia O'DohertyWednesday, 22 August 2012
Alfie Moore: I Predicted a Riot, Pleasance Courtyard ****Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: I, Tommy/Josie Long/WitTankTuesday, 21 August 2012
I, Tommy, Gilded Balloon ****
Everybody will be familiar with Tommy Sheridan's story, and not necessarily because they closely follow Scottish politics at their most internecine. Rather because the Glaswegian socialist went from being barely a paragraph in broadsheets to being plastered over the front pages of tabloids after a series of revelations – which he strongly denies – about visiting swingers' clubs. Read more... |
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