Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off 2022
22/03/2022 … The year has rolled around to the Leicester Square Sketch Off final, this year streamed by NextUp for an online audience as well as the theatre crowd, although it…
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Tue 22 March 2022
Mon 21 March 2022
Standing Up
21/03/2022 … Following the huge global success of Call My Agent!, its creator Fanny Herrero has now turned her attention to the nascent French stand-up scene.
Fri 18 March 2022
© Netflix Catherine Cohen: The Twist Is… She’s Gorgeous
Review of the new Netflix version of the comedian's Edinburgh award-winning show
18/03/2022 … Has anyone quite so perfectly parodied a personality type – very possibly her own – as Catherine Cohen? In The Twist Is… She’s…
Sun 13 March 2022
Sideshow
Review of a new comedy film starring Les Dennis as a washed-up psychic
13/03/2022 … This is what Inside No 9 could have been, had it not for the genius of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith: a plodding, cliche-ridden adventure short of both surprises…
Thu 10 March 2022
© Ben King Hannah Gadsby: Body Of Work
Review of her new stand-up tour, spurning the big issues of the past
10/03/2022 … This, Hannah Gadsby insists, is a ‘feelgood show’.
Wed 09 March 2022
© Matt Crockett Catherine Bohart: This Isn't For You
Review of the comedian’s break-up show
09/03/2022 … ‘So I’m single…’ is one of the most cliched segues in comedy.
Tue 08 March 2022
© Baby Cow The Witchfinder
08/03/2022 … Expectations are high when you have a cast of comedy nobility, led by Tim Key and Daisy May Cooper, and a script from the writers of Alan Partridge.
Count Arthur Strong: And This Is Me!
Review of the old duffer's latest tour
08/03/2022 … Count Arthur Strong is leaving behind his ‘meticulously researched’ lectures of old.