Tom Walker: Beep Boop
29/07/2016 … Very much in the mould of Dr Brown at his most playful, best newcomer nominee Tom Walker brings an inventive edge to his often wordless clowning.
Fri 29 July 2016
Tom Ballard: The World Keeps Happening
29/07/2016 … Twenty-six-year-old Tom Ballard despairs for the current state of political apathy, epitomised by the feeble, lazy ‘clicktivism’ engagement of his entitled…
Zoe Coombs Marr: Trigger Warning
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
29/07/2016 … Zoe Coombs Marr’s inventive, intense and insane hour looks set to be the must-see show of the festival: a takedown of tired comedy tropes that spins wildly into…
Alice Fraser: The Resistance
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
29/07/2016 … There’s something almost literary about Alice Fraser’s incisive, dextrous hour of compelling storytelling: the way she brings characters to vivid life, then…
When Shortlist tried to censor Stewart Lee
Magazine didn't want to upset advertisers... or Jack Whitehall
29/07/2016 … Lifestyle magazine Shortlist attempted to censor Stewart Lee for fear he might upset advertisers – or Jack Whitehall.
Street performing... it's all about freedom
Mat Ricardo's monthly dispatch from the world of variety
29/07/2016 … As regular readers will know, I haven't always been the middlingly-successful, reasonably-priced but excellently-attired cabaret schmuck that you see before…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy reviews 2016
The best, and the rest, of the festival
29/07/2016 … Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS) Live On Stage James Acaster: Reset * Louis CK Scott Agnew: I’ve Snapped My Banjo String, Let’s Just Talk .