Bill
18/09/2015 … The co-writer of Bill, Laurence Rickard, has been quoted as saying he hoped to created something ‘half as good as Shakespeare In Love’ with this feature-film…
2015 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 18 September 2015
Tue 15 September 2015
Kevin Bridges: A Whole Different Story
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hammersmith Apollo
15/09/2015 … As Jeremy Corbyn takes an entirely predictable kicking at the hands of the mainstream press, he might take solace from Kevin Bridges.
Thu 10 September 2015
Rotters on Sky Arts
10/09/2015 … The latest in Sky Arts’ Playhouse Presents… season couldn’t hope for a better cast, with three out of the last four Edinburgh Comedy Award winners.
Sat 05 September 2015
Marc Maron
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the South Bank Centre, London
05/09/2015 … He’s now hanging out with presidents on a podcast that’s brought him success on his own terms after three decades of desperation and self-destruction.
Thu 03 September 2015
Boy Meets Girl
03/09/2015 … Forget the long set-ups; the premise for Boy Meets Girl is established in six words before the credits roll: Two people on a date and the woman confides: ‘I was…
© BBC/ ITV Cradle Ltd/Matt Squire Cradle To Grave
03/09/2015 … Peter Kay involved in some 1970s nostalgia? Surely not!His casting in Cradle To Grave, the sitcom based on Danny Baker’s teenage years in Bermondsey, is probably…
Misery Loves Comedy
03/09/2015 … You might remember Kevin Pollak from the 2005 film The Aristocrats, in which he impersonated Christopher Walken telling a version of the infamously filthy joke.
Tue 01 September 2015
228 comedy reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe
01/09/2015 … Funz and Gamez Tooz James Acaster: Represent Joe Lycett: That's The Way, A-Ha A-Ha, Joe Lycett John Robins: Speakeasy Kieran Hodgson: Lance Mae Martin:…