© Stuart Hogben Bill Bailey at Latitude 2021
25/07/2021 … How did Bill Bailey get to play the main Obelisk Arena at Latitude? ’I’m a competition-winner,’ he jokes… that competition being a little…
2021 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 25 July 2021
© Stuart Hogben Sat 24 July 2021
Flo and Joan at Latitude 2021
24/07/2021 … Flo and Joan offer tight, old-fashioned melodies with delightful vocal performances – but the ear-pleasing sonics are matched with spiky lyrics that delight…
Luisa Omielan at Latitude
24/07/2021 … Given her mega-success with her breakthrough Beyoncé show, Luisa Omielan must have been tempted to call her new hour about women in religion What Would Mary…
Simon Amstell at Latitude 2021
24/07/2021 … Previewing his autumn tour at Latitude, Simon Amstell returns to the big themes of shame, ego and how to be free of these toxic twins that have long defined his…
Fri 23 July 2021
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Party's Over
23/07/2021 … The pilot episode of Party’s Over first aired in August 2019, less than a month after Theresa May left Downing Street, giving it a frisson of topicality.
Thu 22 July 2021
Ealing Comedy Festival 2021 opening gala
22/07/2021 … It just scraped in past the preposterously nicknamed ‘Freedom Day’ in any case, but even so the Ealing Comedy Festival seems as Covid-safe as you like,…
Mon 12 July 2021
Cambridge Comedy Festival
12/07/2021 … Saturday was, by all accounts, the day to go to the Cambridge Comedy Festival: the sun was shining and the crowds were thronging.
Sun 11 July 2021
Taboo: Kate Copstick on offence in comedy
11/07/2021 … There’s no doubt Kate Copstick has an agenda in Taboo.