Mabbs & Justice: Love Machine
23/08/2011 … Often as a reviewer you find yourself at odds with an audience – hating some easy fodder that’s getting lots of laughs, or loving something that deserves more.
Tue 23 August 2011
Josie Long: The Future Is Another Planet
23/08/2011 … ‘Silly, friendly, ramshackle, impassioned’ goes the printed programme blurb for Josie Long’s show – written months before the festival starts.
Auntie Netta and The Trouble With Asian Men
23/08/2011 … This double-bill from the producers of the film comedy East Is East mixes very different types of comedy – even within the same act.
Mon 22 August 2011
Inbetweeners movie smashes records
£13.2million in its opening weekend
22/08/2011 … The Inbetweeners has had the biggest opening box office weekend of any British comedy or independent film.
Final two leave Show Me The Funny
Goodbye to Goldsmith and Taylor
22/08/2011 … Ellie Taylor and Stuart Goldsmith have both been eliminated from ITV’s stand-up competition Show Me The Funny.
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22/08/2011 … GARY The Tank Commander has been made into a 69p game for the iPhone and iPad, Stop That Tank.
Tony Law scoops £5k prize
Fringe award for Canadian comic
22/08/2011 … Tony Law has won the first £5,000 Amused Moose prize for the best Fringe comic without a DVD deal.