Simon Amstell: Carnage
iPlayer film review by Steve Bennett
19/03/2017 … There’s no doubt that Simon Amstell’s Carnage is a film with a very heavy message.
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 19 March 2017
Fri 17 March 2017
Count Arthur Strong: The Sound Of Mucus
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Palace Theatre, Southend
17/03/2017 … At his best, Count Arthur Strong can safely be mentioned in the same breath as Tommy Cooper.
Thu 16 March 2017
Rachel Jackson: Force Of Nature
Gig review by Jay Richardson at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
16/03/2017 … Rachel Jackson's persona of a jilted, unblinkingly intense psychopath, frustrated in love and her acting ambitions, has been potent enough to land her a short-form…
Tue 14 March 2017
© BBC/Balloon Entertainment/Colin Hutton Harry and Paul Present: The Gentleman’s Club
14/03/2017 … The rarefied world of the London gentlemen’s club is one Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse have visited before, via their two old duffers with an unhealthy…
Barbara Nice
14/03/2017 … Barbara Nice’s stage shows are a joyous celebration of ‘seize the moment’ fun, using her charms as an over-friendly Stockport housewife to coerce…
Parental Guidance
14/03/2017 … Romesh Ranganthan didn’t write Parental Guidance, but the Radio 2 comedy was clearly penned for him.
Mon 13 March 2017
The Miser with Lee Mack and Griff Rhys Jones
Theatre review by Steve Bennett
13/03/2017 … A 349-year-old French farce doesn’t seem to have mass appeal written all over it.
© Anna Soderblom Jonny & The Baptists: Eat The Poor
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
13/03/2017 … It sounds like the dreadfully diligent project of a 1980s fringe political theatre group: an issues-based play about homelessness, inequality and the undeserving…