The Rap Guide To Human Nature
29/08/2010 … If school had ever been as entertaining and dare I say as informative as this lecture by rapper and self-styled intellectual gangsta Baba Brinkman, we’d probably…
2010 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 29 August 2010
Roisin Conaty: Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar
29/08/2010 … Like a lot of comedians, Roisin Conaty was the weirdo outsider at school, a painfully uncommunicative creep unable to make friends.
Maeve Higgins: Personal Best
29/08/2010 … From the half-hearted Dizzee Rascal impression she employs as her introduction, to her indiscreet comments on fellow comics and critics, this truly felt like a tired,…
Checkley Bush
29/08/2010 … I have to admit my heart sank at the start of Checkley Bush, as the first scene involved two over-the-top ‘Lanarkshire lezzas’ doing little more than belting…
Paul Harry Allen: The Lost Letters Of Cathy G
29/08/2010 … Rummaging around in a second hand shop in London, Paul Harry Allen, discovers a bundle of letters from the Sixties belonging to someone we only know as Cathy G.
Keara Murphy's Travelling Circus
29/08/2010 … Keara Murphy notices fairly early on in her show that there's a number of people in her audience for whom English is a second or third language and she acknowledges…
Adam Hills: Mess Around
29/08/2010 … At times acts can get bogged down in a heavily themed narrative arc, sacrificing mirth for the message they are trying to get across.
Gemma Goggin: Get Laid or Die Trying
29/08/2010 … We’re four decades on from the women’s liberation movement, but negative attitudes towards women and our sexuality still abound.