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.
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Mon 22 January 2024
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.
Mon 25 December 2023
© BBC/Passion Docs/Richard Davis Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
Review of the Arena documentary
25/12/2023 … That we know how Caroline Aherne’s story ends so tragically early lends a poignancy to this touching documentary about her career and her troubles.
© BBC/Monumental Ghosts 2023 Christmas special
Review of the last ever episode
25/12/2023 … What an utterly charming way to end an utterly charming comedy.
Sun 24 December 2023
© BBC/Avalon Not Going Out 100th episode
Review of the Christmas special of Lee Mack's sitcom
24/12/2023 … A hundred episodes is quite some achievement for any UK sitcom.
Thu 21 December 2023
© DJ Shin/CC BY-SA 3.0 We Forced A Bot To Write This Show
21/12/2023 … There’s much talk about whether Artificial Intelligence will ever outperform humans in their jobs.
Tue 12 December 2023
© Marc Brenner Pandemonium by Armando Iannucci
Review of the cod-Shakespearean Covid satire at Soho Theatre
12/12/2023 … Boris Johnson would like to see himself as a hero of Greek myth, though he sits more squarely in tragedy, with the qualities that made him – frivolous…