© Young Media Stuart Mitchell: Tips Not Included
11/10/2025 … Stuart Mitchell lost his fingertips in a childhood accident – hence the title of this show – although on the scale of horrible things that have…
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Sat 11 October 2025
© Young Media Fri 10 October 2025
Gutter Royale
Review of the opening gala of the world’s first bouffon festival
10/10/2025 … Over the past year, The Pen Theatre in South Bermondsey has become a hub for London’s bouffons – practitioners of the French clowning form that emphasises…
Thu 09 October 2025
Gary Gulman: Grandiloquent
Review of visiting American comedian and storyteller
09/10/2025 … Many a stand-up and armchair psychologist has reflected on comedians’ need for the approval of strangers – perhaps as compensation for a lack of childhood…
© Sonny Malhotra Clash Of The Comics
Review of the wrestling at Hammersmith's Eventim Apollo
09/10/2025 … They ditched the title The Wrestling for Clash Of The Comics… and for a worryingly long while during last night’s show, it seemed like they might have…
Fri 03 October 2025
© BBC/Baby Cow/Ollie Upton How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
03/10/2025 … Anyone who’s driven to Dundee barefoot while gorging on Toblerone probably knows a thing or two about mental illness.
Anirban Dasgupta: Cry Daddy
Review of visiting Indian comedian at London's Soho Theatre
03/10/2025 … It’s not immediately obvious what mild-mannered Kolkata-born, Mumbai-based comedian Anirban Dasgupta means when he says Cry Daddy – the second hour he’s…
Thu 02 October 2025
Dutch Barn Spirit of Comedy Award
Review of the final of the Ricky Gervais-backed competition
02/10/2025 … Can we trust the wisdom of crowds? This new competition run by Dutch Barn vodka has one of the best prizes in comedy – a £5,000 cash prize and the chance…
Wed 01 October 2025
© Marc Brenner The Importance Of Being Earnest
Review of Oscar Wilde's play in the West End, with Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell
01/10/2025 … Lest you be in any doubt of the queer coding long assumed to lie beneath Oscar Wilde’s comedy of secret alternate lives, the National Theatre production of…