Luisa Omielan: What Would Beyonce Do?!
Review of her BBC Three special by Steve Bennett
14/02/2017 … The BBC calls Luisa Omielan’s show a ‘Valentines Day special’ – which suggests they didn’t realise that it’s built around…
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 14 February 2017
Mon 13 February 2017
Paul Foot's Game Of Dangers
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Comedy Festival
13/02/2017 … No one in their right mind would put the absurd and unpredictable Paul Foot in charge of a game show.
Panelbeaters
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Comedy Festival
13/02/2017 … Does TV need another panel show? Jason Manford seems to think so.
Sun 12 February 2017
Andy Zaltzman: Plan Z
12/02/2017 … Satire in the age of Trump will be a vexed question these coming four (or, god help us, eight) years – and that’s even without the Brexistential crisis.
Sat 11 February 2017
© Steve Ullathorne Danny Baker: From The Cradle To The Stage
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hexagon, Reading
11/02/2017 … ‘I don’t know what this is,’ Danny Baker admits of his first stage show in an eclectic 41-year career, save for one panto season in his Daz-advert…
Fri 10 February 2017
Sean Kelly
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2017 … As the host of hit auction show Storage Hunters, Sean Kelly is known for his great salesmanship in pushing goods of wildly variable quality.
An Hour With Woody Allen(ish)
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2017 … ‘I shot a moose once…’ And so begins a classic of stand-up, just one of the exquisitely embellished stories which defined Woody Allen as a pioneer of…
Angelos And Barry: The New Power Generation
10/02/2017 … They are both marginalised characters on the edge of society – either from bored self-destruction, or simply by being old and forgotten.