Aziz Ansari: Right Now
Review of his Netflix special by Steve Bennett
09/07/2019 … We’ve become accustomed to stand-up specials offering an onslaught of laughs, then dropping the mood for a serious message towards the end.
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 09 July 2019
Fri 05 July 2019
Michelle Collins: Strong Monster
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre, London
05/07/2019 … Maybe they were expecting a lot of confused EastEnders fans, that would explain what appears to be an organisational error.
Tue 02 July 2019
© Catherine Harbour Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room on Netflix
02/07/2019 … Katherine Ryan’s latest stand-up show has a lost a little something in the transition from stage to Netflix.
Thu 27 June 2019
Supper With A Side Of Humour
Steve Bennett at a pop-up mixing food, whisky and comedy
27/06/2019 … You only have to glance at a TV cookery show to know that top chefs are always VERY serious when it comes to their food.
Thu 20 June 2019
Brexit
Play review by Steve Bennett at the King's Head, Islington
20/06/2019 … Where DO they get their ideas? In Brexit, a newly installed Tory Prime Minister is hamstrung by the two wings of his party, trying to negotiate a path between gung-ho…
Wed 19 June 2019
Neil Hamburger: No One Loves A Hater
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre, London
19/06/2019 … He’s just released an album of songs, and Neil Hamburger takes to the Soho Theatre stage rasping soullessly through a minor Bobby Goldsboro hit from the 1960s,…
Tue 18 June 2019
Sam Jay
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre, London
18/06/2019 … Never mind what we think of her, US comic Sam Jay is keen to tell the audience what she thinks of us.
Amused Moose New Comedy Award finalists 2019
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Old Deer Park, Richmond
18/06/2019 … Ahead of their day in the sun at the Edinburgh Fringe on August 19, the finalists in this year’s Amused Moose New Comedy Award got a chance to run through…