Pierre Hollins: White Man Blues
19/02/2013 … Pierre Hollins has all the bases covered – sex, religion, drugs – and the sort of admirable commitment to the punchline demanded by the New Mainstream circuit…
2013 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 19 February 2013
Mon 18 February 2013
Comedians Who Happen To Speak English/Great Danes
18/02/2013 … Who knew the East Midlands had such demand for Danish comedians? There’s not one but two shows at the Leicester Comedy Festival comprising only comics from the…
Fri 15 February 2013
Comedy De Luxe Night 4
15/02/2013 … The sold-out house for the exquisitely sardonic Simon Evans at week four of Comedy De Luxe witnessed a competent, if inconsistent, line-up of newer acts for their…
Thu 14 February 2013
Tim Minchin in Winchester
14/02/2013 … OK, so Tim Minchin doesn’t really need another review at this point, but who would turn down the chance of witnessing him perform a one-off ‘greatest hits’…
Wed 13 February 2013
Rob Deering: The One
13/02/2013 … Rob Deering has got a lot of kit on stage: keyboard, drum kit (of sorts), congas, effects and looping pedals, mixing desk, guitar, cowbells.
Tue 12 February 2013
© BBC An Ideal Night Out
12/02/2013 … A little over 24 hours after explaining why he was no longer doing stand-up, Johnny Vegas was back in the same Leicester venue doing, what to most observers, would…
Mon 11 February 2013
Geoff Norcott Occasionally Sells Out
11/02/2013 … Geoff Norcott is having one of those crises of conscience that sometimes strikes the jobbing stand-up.
Alan Francis Expands
11/02/2013 … This is stand-up as unfussy as it comes, a self-confessed curmudgeonly middle-aged man bemoaning what the world has become thanks to the march of technology.