Frank Skinner: 30 Years Of Dirt in the West End
Review of the comic's show at the Gielgud Theatre
07/02/2024 … To deploy the cliché ‘he makes it look effortless’ can’t do justice to how instinctive the mechanics of stand-up are to Frank Skinner.
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Wed 07 February 2024
Fri 02 February 2024
Jonathan Pie: Heroes And Villains
Review of the angry political commentator back on the rampage
02/02/2024 … The current backstory of fake journalist Jonathan Pie is that he’s back on the Westminster beat for the BBC, making viral videos saying what he really thinks…
Wed 31 January 2024
Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening
Review of the newsroom satire, revived for the stage 25 years on
31/01/2024 … When I check my phone during the interval of the stage revival of Drop The Dead Donkey, I learn that GB News just managed to confuse two Sikh MPs.
Mon 29 January 2024
Chris McCausland: Yonks!
Review of the comic's new stand-up tour
29/01/2024 … The wheel may remain resolutely unreinvented in Chris McCausland’s new tour, but he uses it to cement his reputation as a skilled practitioner of relatable…
Tue 23 January 2024
Icklewick FM
Review of the new Radio 4 comedy from Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill and others
23/01/2024 … Is there something of the Royston Vasey about Icklewick? A small Northern backwater, full of eccentrics, with something sinister afoot… Not that the local…
Mon 22 January 2024
Miles Jupp: On I Bang
Review of the comedian's show about dealing with a brain tumour
22/01/2024 … Quintessentially middle-class and always old beyond his years, Miles Jupp is the epitome of the button-down Englishman.
Matthew Hayhurst: Retirement Show
Comedian looks back on his 126-year comedy career
22/01/2024 … Save some convoluted premise setting the events in purgatory, this is a chronological run-through of the fictional – and very unlikely-sounding –…
Fri 19 January 2024
© Amazon Studios LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland
Ten comedians in the latest version of Amazon's global format
19/01/2024 … Having already aired more than 20 international versions, LOL: Last One Laughing is an easily grasped reality format that Amazon has throw a lot of weight behind.