Taboo: Kate Copstick on offence in comedy
11/07/2021 … There’s no doubt Kate Copstick has an agenda in Taboo.
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Review of Lucy Pearman's BBC Three comedy pilot
07/07/2021 … Anyone who’s seen Lucy Pearman’s one-woman shows will not forget her endearingly dotty sense of humour and her unwavering commitment to the absurd.
Michael Palin’s Memory Palaces
Review of Radio 4 show featuring Terry Gilliam
07/07/2021 … Michael Palin features in Michael Palin’s Memory Palaces only a little more than a bloke called Monty Python features in his eponymous Flying Circus.
Mon 05 July 2021
The Essay: Adrian Edmondson
05/07/2021 … During lockdown, it seems like every gig-starved comic has decided to dash off a book, unanimously deciding that literature, not grubby gigging, is their true calling.
Mon 21 June 2021
Aidan Goatley: 12 Films of Christmas
21/06/2021 … It’s Christmas in June, and Aidan Goatley is full of the ‘goodwill to all men’ spirit.
Ali and Fran: Intense!!
21/06/2021 … Fran and Ali is a two-hander, rather than a double act, even if their contrasting chalk-and-Swiss-cheese personalities might seem ideally suited for comic juxtaposition.
Gerry Carroll: When I Was Alive
21/06/2021 … The inventive idiots at the cult Alternative Comedy Memorial Society night have a permitted heckle: ‘A failure - but a noble one.