© Stuart Hogben Comedy at Latitude 2025
29/07/2025 … Latitude remains the best outdoor festival for big-name live comedy, mitigating the effects of a daytime gig in a vast open-sided marquee with inevitable noise…
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Tue 29 July 2025
© Stuart Hogben Wed 23 July 2025
Smok'd Crack New Comedian of the Year 2025
Review of the talent hunt final
23/07/2025 … The career pipeline for all the good stand-ups emerging from new act competitions may be ever-narrowing, but still the talent flows, as the contest run by the Crack…
Wed 16 July 2025
© Aemen Sukkar at Jiksaw Kerry Godliman: Bandwidth
Review of the comedian's tour, being recorded at the Comedy Store
16/07/2025 … With age comes wisdom… and grouchiness.
Mon 14 July 2025
© BBC Scotland / Shakehaus BBC Scotland comedy shorts
Reviews of Govan Fair Queen and Zara Gladman's Good For Her
14/07/2025 … Elaine C Smith may sit among Scottish comedy royalty but she’s forever in danger of being upstaged by young screen newcomer Harper Blue Hamilton in the…
Fri 11 July 2025
© Marc Brenner The Merry Wives Of Windsor
George Fouracres stars at Shakespeare's Globe
11/07/2025 … Last time George Fouracres was on stage he was owning it with a exuberant caricature of imperious, petulant Andrew Lloyd Webber in Flo and Joan’s…
Thu 10 July 2025
© Netflix Too Much
Review of Lena Dunham's new Netflix romcom
10/07/2025 … In the second episode of Too Much, Jessica – the character loosely based on series creator Lena Dunham – upbraids a date for describing her…
Thu 03 July 2025
Comedy Knockout: Champion Of Champions
Review of the climax of Backyard Comedy Club's new act format
03/07/2025 … There’s an inevitable brutality to most of the formats by which comedy clubs whittle down the tsunami of desperate open-miccers into those promising enough…
Wed 02 July 2025
© Damian Bennett Tim Minchin: Songs The World Will Never Hear
Review of his celebration of '20 years of rock-and-roll nerdery'
02/07/2025 … Two decades at the top of his game, and Tim Minchin still exudes the air of a man who can’t quite believe his luck.