Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That's Always Screaming
Review of the innovative comedian's latest show
09/10/2026 … For a man forever playing with the form of stand-up, Jordan Brookes is relatively conventional with his latest offering.
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Fri 09 October 2026
Thu 08 October 2026
© Steve Ullathorne Susan Calman: Tall Tales
Review of the comic's first tour in ten years
08/10/2026 … She has spent the last decade not as a comedian but as a TV personality, from Strictly to her camper-van tours to being Channel Five’s face of cruise ships.
Wed 07 October 2026
© Stephanie Sian Smith Harriet Kemsley: Floozy
Review of the comic's latest tour
07/10/2026 … Floozy, Harriet Kemsley says, is an aspirational state.
Tue 06 October 2026
Emer Maguire: Perfectly Chaotic
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
06/10/2026 … It seems like half of Manchester’s Irish expat community has come out to see Emer Maguire on her first UK visit as a touring comedian.
Stanela Khalil: Beirut-ish
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
06/10/2026 … Like many an immigrant comedian, Stanela Khalil understandably uses her status as a cultural inbetweener to drive her comedy – too Irish for Beirut, too Lebanese…
Mon 05 October 2026
Wummy
Review of Charis King's one-woman play at the Women In Comedy festival
05/10/2026 … The central character in writer-performer Charis King’s one-woman play is a wannabe yummy mummy – hence the portmanteau title.
Sun 04 October 2026
© Steve Ullathorne The End of the World According to Jonathan Pie
Review of the perpetually furious character's latest political show
04/10/2026 … Jonathan Pie has been invited to speak at an AI symposium.
Thu 01 October 2026
© Channel 4 / Vishal Sharma Break Clause
Review of Channel 4's new sadcom
01/10/2026 … On a joy-filled night out to celebrate the end of uni life, Ben and Lil are so giddily in love that one of their pals comments that their flirtatious behaviour ‘is…