Comedy
Reginald D Hunter, Princes Hall Aldershot review - underpowered but the laughs come throughMonday, 06 May 2019
Reginald D Hunter drops the n-bomb near the top of the show. He means no offence, he tells the audience, but it's the vernacular where he comes from in Georgia. And besides, using that word, as well as expressing some trenchant opinions about the... Read more... |
Krater Comedy Club, Brighton Komedia 25th Birthday review - a south coast institution celebratesSaturday, 04 May 2019
The Komedia is a Brighton Institution and celebrates its birthday tonight in a suitably raucous fashion. The Komedia began in 1994, founded by the directors of the Umbrella Theatre Company, and styled on the cabaret spaces they’d experienced touring... Read more... |
Mark Thomas, BAC review - impassioned polemic about the NHSThursday, 25 April 2019
Mark Thomas issues a health warning for Check-Up: Our NHS at 70 at Battersea Arts Centre – “This show contains swearing, a video of an operation on a stomach and a description of being in A&E when a patient dies.” Indeed it... Read more... |
Britney, Soho Theatre review - finding the funny in a brain tumourMonday, 22 April 2019
A brain tumour isn't usually the subject of a comedy show but Britney, written and performed by comedy duo Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson, is just that. It's “the true story of what happens to two best friends when one of them [Clive] gets a brain... Read more... |
Tommy Tiernan, Shepherd's Bush Empire review - playful and poeticFriday, 19 April 2019
Tommy Tiernan is something of an institution in his native Ireland, as a stand-up comic, newspaper columnist, sometime chat show host and full-time controversialist. Now his appearance as Da Gerry in Channel 4's Derry Girls has brought him to a... Read more... |
Angela Barnes, Blackheath Halls review - a pessimist turning the tablesWednesday, 10 April 2019
Angela Barnes is one of life’s pessimists, she tells us at the top of the hour, but she’s trying not to be so world-weary, and to turn negatives into positives. And, while there’s so much awfulness going on around us, why not try to lighten the mood... Read more... |
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... Read more... |
Mo Amer and Guz Khan, Leicester Square Theatre review - racism examined from both sides of the AtlanticMonday, 01 April 2019
Well this is a nice change from the standard stand-up fare. Not many comics have a DJ introduce them with a cracking set of his own, and even fewer tour as part of a double bill with material that moves seamlessly from one set to the other as they... 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... 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... Read more... |
Brighton Festival 2019 launches with Guest Director Rokia TraoréWednesday, 13 February 2019
The striking cover for the Brighton Festival 2019 programme shouts out loud who this year’s Guest Director is. Silhouetted in flowers, in stunning artwork by Simon Prades, is the unmistakeable profile of Malian musician Rokia Traoré. Taking place... Read more... |
