Daniel Howell: We Are All Doomed
Review of the YouTube star's stand-up tour
29/09/2022 … The London Palladium is busy tonight, but the bar is doing slow business.
2022 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 29 September 2022
Wed 28 September 2022
© Steve Ullathorne Stewart Lee: Basic Lee
Review of the comic's new stand-up show at Leicester Square Theatre
28/09/2022 … It’s a reviewers’ cliché to call something a masterclass of comedy, but Stewart Lee’s latest show is almost literally that, as he gives…
Tue 27 September 2022
© Baby Cow The Train
Review of the new digital short from the mind of Lucy Pearman
27/09/2022 … In her live work, Lucy Pearman has a reputation for slightly bonkers comedy – which she neatly parlayed into the real-ish world via her trippy BBC Three pilot…
© BBC/Hat Trick Stuck
Review of Dylan Moran's new BBC comedy
27/09/2022 … Maybe it’s a throwback to the domestic imprisonment of the past couple of years, but the stagnation of long-term relationships seems to be a growing trend…
Sun 25 September 2022
© Boffola Pictures Am I Being Unreasonable?
Review of Daisy May Cooper's new BBC series
25/09/2022 … It must have seemed well-nigh impossible for Daisy May Cooper to follow up a sleeper hit like This Country, which drew so heavily on her West Country upbringing…
Fri 23 September 2022
Nailing It by Rich Hall
23/09/2022 … In what’s almost an aside at the end of Nailing It, Rich Hall laments the fact that increasing professionalism of the stand-up scene has robbed it of the ‘renegades,…
Thu 22 September 2022
From The Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast series 2
22/09/2022 … The last time we saw Alan Partridge he was being denied entry to Broadcasting House after an ill-judged Network-style meltdown on This Time left him stuck outside…
Kim Noble: Lullaby for Scavengers
Live comedy-performance art review
22/09/2022 … Seven years in the making, Kim Noble’s new show offers an unflinching embrace of what most people would find repulsive.