© Dancing Ledge/Channel 4 2024 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 28 March 2024
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Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing?
Review of the comic at Soho Theatre
28/03/2024 … Amid all the oddballs doing stand-up, Pierre Novellie seems like one of the most well-adjusted: eloquent, composed and wearing his Cambridge-educated sophistication…
Mon 25 March 2024
© Kash Yusaf Reginald D Hunter: The Man Who Could See Through Shit
Review of the comic's latest tour
25/03/2024 … Given the self-mythologising title, I wonder what Reginald D Hunter might say if he could apply that bullshit detector to his own tour? Possibly that it feels incomplete;…
Scott Agnew's Scottish Square Sausage Show – Sunday Social
Glasgow International Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
25/03/2024 … From Tony Hancock's reverence for Fred's Pie Stall and The Goodies' Ecky Thump, through The League Of Gentlemen's 'special stuff' and Tom…
Fri 22 March 2024
© Paul Gilbey Fesshole Live
Review from the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
22/03/2024 … Surveying the dreadful, divided state of X, formerly known as Twitter, nowadays, you'd be forgiven for forgetting what a democratising effect it had on humour…
Sun 10 March 2024
Janey
Review of the new documentary about stand-up Janey Godley
10/03/2024 … Most stand-up documentaries are either cosy retrospectives, shot when their subject has long since passed their peak and moved on to legendary status.
Fri 08 March 2024
© Angela Lewis for The New York Times Sorry/Not Sorry
Review of the New York Times film about Louis CK's sexual misconduct
08/03/2024 … Towards the end of Sorry/Not Sorry, the documentary about Louis CK's sexual harassment of female comedians, Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, suggests…
Leigh Francis: My First Time
Review of the Keith Lemon creator's debut live show
08/03/2024 … The abiding image of Leigh Francis’s first live tour after a couple of decades of small-screen success is probably Dec anally violating Ant with one of their…
