Steve N Allen: Some News
Gig review by Steve Bennett at The Hobgoblin
05/05/2014 … Steve N Allen faces the same challenge of anyone doing topical comedy: how to compete with the stream of instant gags and funny pictures that fill up most social…
Mon 05 May 2014
Jack Carroll goes to Big School
BGT comic joins cast of Walliams's sitcom
05/05/2014 … Teenage Britain's Got Talent comic Jack Carroll is to star in the next series of BBC One sitcom Big School.
Brighton Fringe: 2 Guys And A Girl
Gig review by Steve Bennett at The Temple
05/05/2014 … At best, the 2 Guys And A Girl dipping their toes into Fringe waters with this compilation show need a lot more experience.
Sun 04 May 2014
Frank goes to Hollywood... kind of
04/05/2014 … TodayCOMEDY IN BRIGHTON: The city’s busy Fringe festival continues all week… highlights tonight include Glenn Wool at the Komedia (6.
Marty Feldman's memoirs discovered
Lost autobiography to be published this year
04/05/2014 … Marty Feldman’s memoirs are to be published - more than 30 years after his death.
Why I hate the phrase 'northern club comic'
Freddy Quinne on a lazy journalistic shorthand
04/05/2014 … Perhaps my least favourite phrase in the whole of comedy is 'smashed it'.
Sat 03 May 2014
Richard Gadd: Cheese And Crack Whores
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Soho Theatre
03/05/2014 … Richard Gadd twists the ‘tears-of-clown’ idea into odd and occasionally disturbing angles with this ambitious show, which takes artistic self-flagellation to…
Fri 02 May 2014
© Dave M Bennet/Getty Cresswell's death 'brought on by drugs'
Cocaine blamed for agent's heart attack
02/05/2014 … Comedy agent Addison Cresswell died of a heart attack brought on by snorting cocaine at a Christmas party, an inquest into his death has heard.