© Vice Jamali Maddix: Hate Thy Neighbour
23/11/2016 … ‘I am just a comedian,’ says Jamali Maddix in the opening credits to Hate Thy Neighbour, amid images of burning Swastikas, guns and mob…
2016 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 23 November 2016
© Vice Thu 17 November 2016
Stewart Lee: Content Provider
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Square Theatre, London
17/11/2016 … In Content Provider, Stewart Lee's agenda is nothing less than all that’s wrong with the world in this social media age, from the insular echo-chamber…
Mon 14 November 2016
Catherine Tate Show Live
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hammersmith Apollo
14/11/2016 … Last time I saw Catherine Tate perform her own show live was in Edinburgh’s 50-seater Pleasance Cellar 15 years ago.
Sun 13 November 2016
Sunny D
13/11/2016 … With its cast dancing in casual knitwear, Sunny D knowingly evokes The Cosby Show from the moment its opening credits start.
Fri 11 November 2016
The Boy With Tape On His Face is Tape Face
Gig review by Steve Bennett at The Old Market, Hove
11/11/2016 … On the back of his phenomenal success getting to the final of America’s Got Talent, creative mime act Tape Face is hitting the West End for seven weeks next summer…
Uncles
11/11/2016 … Almost nothing was revealed in advance about this new show from Burnistoun creators Robert Florence and Iain Connell, yet Uncles greatly surpasses the expectations…
Thu 10 November 2016
Mike Wilmot: Uncle
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre
10/11/2016 … There’s often a distinction made between club comics and more artistic theatrical ones: the kind who win prizes in Edinburgh and get London runs at the Soho Theatre.
Bits Of Me Are Falling Apart, starring Adrian Edmondson
Review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Thearte
10/11/2016 … He may not be a Young One any more, but in middle-age Adrian Edmondson seems to be reduced to a listless, self-pitying whinge.