Dalia Malek
Daliso Chaponda
Dalton Trumbo's Reluctant Cabaret
Damian Clark
Damian Kingsley
Damien Slash
Damion Larkin
Dan Antopolski
Dan Atkinson
Dan Bland
Dan Clark
Dan Evans
Dan McKee
Dan Mitchell
Dan Nightingale
Dan Renton Skinner
Dan Schreiber
Dan Willis
Dan Wright
Dana Alexander
Dane Baptiste
Daniel Kitson
Daniel Rigby
Daniel Simonsen
Daniel Sloss
Daniel Smith
Daniel Townes
Danielle Ward
Danny Bhoy
Danny Buckler
Danny Dawes
Danny Deegan
Danny Hurst
Danny James
Danny McLoughlin
Danny Sutcliffe
Dara O Briain
Darius Davies
Darren Connell
Darren Maskell
Darren Ruddell
Darren Walsh
Dave Allen
Dave Cohen
Dave Dynamite
Dave Florez
Dave Fulton
Dave Gibson
Dave Gorman
Dave Howarth
Dave Johns
Dave Jolly
Dave Lemkin
Dave McCue
Dave McSavage
Dave Mounfield
Dave Skinner
Dave Spikey
Dave Thompson
Dave Thornton
Dave Twentyman
Dave Williams
Davey Connor
David Baddiel
David Bloom
David Croft
David Cross
David Crowe
David Elms
David Feldman
David Hadingham
David Hannant
David Jason
David Kay
David Longley
David Meech
David Mills
David Mitchell
David Morgan
David Mulholland
David O'Doherty
David Reed
David Trent
David Walliams
David Ward
David Whitney
Dawn French
Dayne Rathbone
Dead Cat Bounce
Deborah Frances White
Debra DiGiovanni
Debra-Jane Appelby
Deirdre O'Kane
Del Strain
Delete The Banjax
Demetri Martin
Demitris Deech
Denis Norden
Dermot Carmody
Dermot McMorrow
Dermot Whelan
Des Bishop
Des Clarke
Des McLean
Des Sharples
Diane Morgan
Diane Spencer
Dick Gregory
Doc Brown
Doktor CocaColaMcDonalds
Dom Carroll
Dom Irrera
Dom Joly
Dominic Cross
Dominic Elliot Spencer
Dominic Frisby
Dominic Holland
Dominic Woodward
Don Biswas
Don Dube
Donald Mack
Doniert McFarlane
Donna McPhail
Donna Spence
Donnchadh O Conaill
Dory Lama
Doug Stanhope
Dougie Dunlop
Dr Brown
Drew Barr
Drew Cameron
Dudley Moore
Dug Shelmerdine
Duncan Logan
Duncan Norvelle
Duncan Oakley
Dustin Demri-Burns
Dylan Fielding
Dylan Moran
Daniel Kitson
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| TV: 2001-2: Phoenix Nights as Spencer |
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| Stand Up: 2006 Winner of four Chortle awards: People's Choice, Comics' Comic, best full-length show and best headliner |
| Stand Up: 2005: Edinburgh stand-up show; plus Fringe First-winning theatre show - Stories For The Wobbly Hearted stand-up show; |
| Stand Up: 2005: Edinburgh stand-up show; plus Fringe First-winning theatre show - Stories For The Wobbly Hearted Stories For The Wobbly Hearted |
| Stand Up: 2005: Winner of three Chortle awards: People's Choice, best full-length show and best compere Chortle awards |
| Stand Up: 2004: Edinburgh show Edinburgh show |
| Stand Up: 2004: Named People's Choice and Comics' Comic in the Chortle awards. Nominated for a Barry at the Melbourne Comedy Festival Chortle awards. |
| Stand Up: 2004: UK tour: Lover, Thinker, Artist and Prophet. Dates Dates |
| Stand Up: 2003: Edinburgh show Made Up Story, which won a Herald Angel Made Up Story |
| Stand Up: 2003: Winner of two Chortle awards - for Comedian's Comedian and best solo show. Melbourne show. Review Chortle awards |
| Stand Up: 2003: Winner of two Chortle awards - for Comedian's Comedian and best solo show. Melbourne show. Review Review |
| Stand Up: 2003: First solo tour. |
| Stand Up: 2002: Perrier winner for his Edinburgh show Something Perrier |
| Stand Up: 2002: Perrier winner for his Edinburgh show Something Something |
| Stand Up: 2002: Winner of Time Out Award for live perfomance. Winner of Chortle Award for best male circuit comic. Nominated for the Barry Award at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. |
| Stand Up: 2001: Debut Edinburgh show: Love Innocence And The Word Cock nominated for the Perrier award. Love Innocence And The Word Cock |
| Stand Up: 2001: Debut Edinburgh show: Love Innocence And The Word Cock nominated for the Perrier award. Perrier |
| Stand Up: 1998: Hackney Empire New Act of the Year finalist |
| Stand Up: 1995: BBC Open Mic Award finalist |
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Brixton Comedy Club |
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![]() There’s a community feel to the Brixton Comedy Club. Promoter and MC Ivor Dembina has run a room in this corner of South London for many years, there are a number of regulars in the audience, and it’s the sort of friendly local place that attracts the likes of Daniel Kitson, popping down tonight to chew the breeze alongside the newer acts on the bill. But you wouldn’t call it professional; it’s a shambles, with decidedly hit-and-miss quality, but a charming shambles nonetheless. The running order is decided on the fly and from the stage; the doorman offers strange percussion on maracas or harmonica (and a stranger act when he’s given run of the stage), and Dembina’s lackadaisical low-energy compering won’t be landing him any bookings at the slick corporate chains any time soon. Where there is disarray, Lewis Schaffer is sure to amplify it. After volunteering to be opening act, he starts by asking audience members how funny they think he’ll be, based on Dembina’s deliberately shoddy introduction. And that’s just the start of this late-middle-aged Jewish New Yorker’s needy insecurities. With little evidence to go on, the audience average out at giving him three out of five – the same star-rating Chortle gave him at this year’s Fringe, to a chagrin he makes very public here. He wants to be a Marmite comic, and Marmite comics don’t get three stars. His aim is to engineer event comedy you’ll remember, for five-star better or one-star worse. But sometimes, as tonight, it just doesn’t click and he stays in the middle of the scale; the audience appreciating what he’s trying to do, even if it doesn’t happen, Jonny and the Baptists are much easier to get a handle on, which is probably why a contingent from corporate entertainment bookers JLA are here to check them out, even if Dembina identifying them on the front row added to the awkwardness. As a comedy party band, the trio have verve and infectious good humour. Original songs are jaunty in tempo and lyrics. There’s nothing to make you gasp at their comic invention, but their lyrics are witty and set to foot-stomping music. Plus cheery lead singer Jonny Donahoe uses the space well, climbing over tables as he sings a ‘don’t leave me’ love song to Scotland or berating the loss of good old-fashioned pubs. BBC New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont seemed quiet by comparison, and it took the audience a while to attune to her quirky low-key tales of Hull’s working – or not-working – class. A modern-day ingenue, she paints a vivid and sympathetic portrait of an all-too believable world, contrasted with the perils of That London. Told in an infinitely endearing accent, it’s enjoyable and original stuff,... save for a story about a man in a barber’s shop that’s a pretty old joke, and didn’t belong with the rest. From her guileless sunny outlook, to the shadowy lowlands of Oli Bettersworth’s psyche. He suffers depression and misanthropy, using the stage as an outlet for his misery. His approach achieves mixed results; on one level, many can relate to his grumpiness at forced jollity or appreciate how telling someone suffering with mental anguish to just ‘cheer up’ might not be the clinical tonic needed. Yet while some punchlines are funny some of his set-ups are longwinded, and he has a tendency to lay on the misery a little too heavily for a comedy set. Even though misery is a fine comic outlook, the attitude should speak for itself, it doesn’t need over-explaining. Andy Zapp opened the second half, the club’s doorman and pet oddball. He seems to have a catchphrase: ‘It’s scary up here’ as his jokes fall on deaf ears. A nervous performer, he resorts to shock tactics and old-fashioned jokes about, for example, the Chinese eating dogs to get a reaction. He’s an older comic who confesses to having had problems with drugs in the past, which wins him some sympathy, but it’s a gateway to some more corny jokes, rather that anything personal. His failings are all part of the in-joke of the night, though, and he’s treated as a slightly loopy older uncle. But if he’s to be a real comic, he needs to relax... Michael Kossew labours his main routine, deciding that the familiar pattern of unrequited love – in which he becomes ‘just friends’ with the women he wants to romance – should be named after himself. There’s a nice strand of self-deprecation and the sort of situation many a man will identify with, but the routine needs to be much faster if it’s to zing, rather than stick at the sporadically amusing level. But then speeding that up would leave more time for the second major strand of his set: That women over 30 are barren and washed-up. I’m sure it’s laced with teasing irony, but it just seems mean. And worse, it’s mean in a casual, half-hearted way, rather than being balls-out offensive, which would somehow at least be comedically more justifiable. And to close, Daniel Kitson – responsible for many of the finest comedy shows of the last decade, but here just chatting with minimal material. There were a few germs of ideas in an otherwise indulgent bit of banter about the Twilight films but generally his section was not much of anything until he hit his stride with some compering work – blasting a woman for constantly mentioning shampoo as if mocking his baldness; or dashing off a couple of classic Kitson zingers against scaffolders or acting students. For him, this is a long way down the artistic path from the finished product, but shows that no one is too talented to practice, practice, practice.
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David, some of the best shows I ever saw were Ken Campbell's monologues. Although he was a largely known as a comedic actor, hugely funny in places and superbly executed, they weren't really anything like stand-up and I wouldn't criticise them for that. Kitson's story shows have elements of humour but are more of a dramatic performance. 'd say that someone turning up in the expectation of a stand-up show might be disappointed if they weren't a fan of the theatre. It doesn't necessarily make the shows pretentious or inferior. Just different. Ben, February 2013 |
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The Peter Kay of the middle class. Todd, February 2013 |
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Liked him as a stand up but his recent shows are pretentious, self important and not especially funny. Overrated. david, February 2013 |
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Go and see him... If anyone was born to do this it was him. Great to see how his work develops before your eyes. Farmersjuice, January 2013 |
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Go and see him. If anyone was born to do this it was him. Great to see how his work develops before your eyes. Farmersjuice, January 2013 |
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Seen him more often than some family members. Never fail to be moved, cheered and touched. Ni Tle, February 2012 |
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Saw Daniel at the National Theatre just before Xmas, what an amazing show, brilliant, not a normal stand-up routine, a fantastic, beautiful story. Neill Aitken, January 2012 |
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Saw Gregory Church show last night in Bristol. Daniel was excellent and it is beautifully written. I can see him going down the Alan Bennett route soon. I really hope he carried on doing stand-up a while longer though. The audience interaction before the show illustrates how wonderful he is in that medium. A natural funny man. James Evans, May 2011 |
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| Venue: | Durham Gala Theatre |
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| Venue: | Oxford Playhouse |
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| Venue: | Leicester Just The Tonic |
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| Venue: | Hull Truck Theatre |
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| Venue: | Glasgow Arches |
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| Venue: | Colchester Arts Centre |
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| Venue: | Margate Theatre Royal |
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| Venue: | Hebden Bridge Picture House |
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Recommended| 20:00 - Thursday 27th Jun, '13 | |
| Venue: | Galway Roisin Dubh |
| Prices: | €12 |
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Love Innocence And The Word Cock
Edinburgh Fringe 2002
Daniel Kitson: Something Perrier winner
Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit
The Stonewall Gala
Edinburgh Fringe 2003
Daniel Kitson: A Made Up Story
Stand Up For Freedom
Edinburgh Fringe 2004
Daniel Kitson
Edinburgh Fringe 2005
Daniel Kitson @ The Stand
Stories For The Wobbly-Hearted by Daniel Kitson
Edinburgh Fringe 2006
C-90
The Honourable Men Of Art
Edinburgh Fringe 2007
Daniel Kitson: It's The Fireworks Talking
Edinburgh Fringe 2008
Honourable Men Of Art 2008
Sixty-Six A Church Road: A Lament, Made Of Memories And Kept In Suitcases, By Daniel Kitson
Edinburgh Fringe 2009
Daniel Kitson: We Are Gathered Here
The Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church, by Daniel Kitson
Edinburgh Fringe 2010
Daniel Kitson: It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later
Edinburgh Fringe 2012
As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title
Daniel Kitson: Where Once Was Wonder
Melbourne 2006
Daniel Kitson: Weltanschauung
Tour
Daniel Kitson: After the Beginning . Before the End.
Daniel Kitson: Lover, Thinker, Artist and Prophet
Daniel Kitson: The Impotent Fury Of The Privileged



