Funz And Games
Our review of the Foster's panel prize winner
19/08/2014 … He describes himself as North Manchester’s ‘most reliable’ comedian, but in Funz And Gamez, Phil Ellis could have finally found the key to much greater things…
Tue 19 August 2014
My guide to shagging in Edinburgh
Brydie Lee-Kennedy has the bases covered...
19/08/2014 … It’s the final week of the Edinburgh Fringe and that means you’ve probably engaged in at least one of the following activities: complaining about your lack…
© Steve Ullathorne Wild characters with twisted scenes that ring with pathos
The Noise Next Door choose their comedy favourites
19/08/2014 … Whose Line Is It Anyway? It's eye-rollingly obvious but Whose Line… was the first place we saw improv, it's what inspired us to give it a go, and it was the template…
Lenny Henry to star in Richard Pryor play
New project for National Theatre
19/08/2014 … Lenny Henry is to appear in a play about Richard Pryor at the National Theatre.
Mon 18 August 2014
Julian McCullough: Dream Girls
18/08/2014 … The first ten, 15 minutes of visiting American comic Julian McCullough are tough going.
Matt Price: The Maryhill Dinosaur
18/08/2014 … Us critics normally like to sit at the back, in the dark; a situation usually preferred by comedians, too.
Liam Williams: Capitalism
18/08/2014 … Not wanting to needlessly add to the substantial self-loathing that Liam Williams unloads on stage, but plenty of the criticisms he has of his own ‘stand-up pathos’…