Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy
15/10/2019 … Despite a small handful of high-profile exceptions, black and Asian characters tend to be under-represented in TV comedy.
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 15 October 2019
Mon 14 October 2019
© Andrew Perry Baby Reindeer
Review of Richard Gadd's show at the Bush Theatre, London
14/10/2019 … How much torment can one man bear? Richard Gadd previously excoriated his soul with the grim tale of how he was groomed and sexually abused as a young man.
Fri 11 October 2019
The Day Shall Come
11/10/2019 … How to effectively satirise a world in which Donald Trump is President vexes some of the greatest minds of the artform.
Frank Skinner: Showbiz
Tour review by Steve Bennett at G Live, Guildford
11/10/2019 … He was the face of the lad comics who dominated the 1990s, talking football on the telly and sex, in graphic detail, on stage.
Wed 09 October 2019
Rudi Lickwood’s Five Minutes To Shine
New act final review by Steve Bennett
09/10/2019 … New act finals can be stressful enough for the inexperienced comedian at the best of time, but Rudi Lickwood’s Five Minutes To Shine added an extra –…
Frisky & Mannish: Pop Lab
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Y Theatre, Leicester
09/10/2019 … It is a quarter-filled theatre in Leicester on a school night, but Frisky and Mannish are performing like it’s a sold-out London Palladium.
Mon 07 October 2019
© BBC/Merman Motherland Series 2
07/10/2019 … It’s a welcome return for Motherland, the comedy that does for parenthood what The Thick Of It did for politics – revealing in ugly detail the stresses…
Mo Gilligan: Momentum
07/10/2019 … Some comedians set themselves away from the norm, others want to show they are just like you.