DVDs

22/04/2010 … An appealing storyteller with a strong sense of timing, Mike Birbiglia conjures up some fantastic comic images in his first stand-up DVD, released this week on Pias.

04/03/2010 … There’s little criticism you can level at Jim Gaffigan that he hasn’t already thought of himself.

16/02/2010 … Richard Herring’s one of the safest bets in Edinburgh, reliably producing thoughtful, stimulating and well-constructed shows.

25/01/2010 … Dutch indie label Pias – a catchy acronym for Play It Again Sam – is a new player in the British comedy DVD world, currently dipping its toes in the potentially lucrative market with a few imports, though bigger plans are afoot.

11/01/2010 … Ed Byrne’s second DVD missed our pre-Christmas reviews, but it turns out to have been one of the season’s finer offerings.

23/12/2009 … Mock The Week seems to be on such constant rotation on Dave that buying a DVD would seem redundant – there’s hardly a time of day that it’s not on, it would seem.

22/12/2009 … With the plunging cost of technology, every comedian can release a DVD now; never mind waiting for Universal Pictures, or even a respected indie such as Go Faster Stripe, to recognise your talents.

21/12/2009 … It’s been several years since I watched a Roy Chubby Brown DVD, and, to admit my own prejudices, I was probably never going to be enamoured by a show with such a crass title as Too Fat Too Be Gay.