White Male Stand-Up, by Alan Davies
17/10/2025 … Five years ago, Alan Davies revealed in his powerful and sometimes distressing memoir Just Ignore Him that he had been sexually abused by his father as a child.
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Fri 17 October 2025
Thu 16 October 2025
© Rosie Powell Bog Witch
Review of Briony Kimmings new comedy-theatre piece at Soho Theatre Walthamstowe
16/10/2025 … In the first show to debut at Soho Theatre’s new Walthamstow outpost – and with a sizeable two-and-a-half week run in the beautiful 960-seat venue…
Sat 11 October 2025
© Young Media Stuart Mitchell: Tips Not Included
11/10/2025 … Stuart Mitchell lost his fingertips in a childhood accident – hence the title of this show – although on the scale of horrible things that have…
Fri 10 October 2025
Gutter Royale
Review of the opening gala of the world’s first bouffon festival
10/10/2025 … Over the past year, The Pen Theatre in South Bermondsey has become a hub for London’s bouffons – practitioners of the French clowning form that emphasises…
Thu 09 October 2025
Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent
Review of visiting American comedian and storyteller
09/10/2025 … Many a stand-up and armchair psychologist has reflected on comedians’ need for the approval of strangers – perhaps as compensation for a lack of childhood…
© Sonny Malhotra Clash Of The Comics
Review of the wrestling at Hammersmith's Eventim Apollo
09/10/2025 … They ditched the title The Wrestling for Clash Of The Comics… and for a worryingly long while during last night’s show, it seemed like they might have…
Fri 03 October 2025
© BBC/Baby Cow/Ollie Upton How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
03/10/2025 … Anyone who’s driven to Dundee barefoot while gorging on Toblerone probably knows a thing or two about mental illness.
Anirban Dasgupta: Cry Daddy
Review of visiting Indian comedian at London's Soho Theatre
03/10/2025 … It’s not immediately obvious what mild-mannered Kolkata-born, Mumbai-based comedian Anirban Dasgupta means when he says Cry Daddy – the second hour he’s…