Unspun With Matt Forde
14/09/2016 … A bold commission from what was once the home of the repeat, an ultra-topical political show recorded the night before transmission.
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 14 September 2016
Lost Sitcoms: Steptoe and Son
14/09/2016 … The final offering in the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom season returns to the fathers of the genre, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, for that classic of existential entrapment:…
Holly Burn: I Am Special
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Brasserie Zédel, London
14/09/2016 … ‘I’m not special,’ says the woman in the spotlight, all chairs pointed at her, in a glamorous art deco bar in Central London.
Sun 11 September 2016
Comedy Feeds: Pumped
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
11/09/2016 … Another BBC Comedy Feed, more wank jokes… although Pumped makes a virtue of its puerility, thoroughly embracing its frat-boy humour like a live-action South Park,…
Fri 09 September 2016
© BBC Comedy Feed: JPD
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
09/09/2016 … JPD is the only one of this year's batch of Comedy Feeds that's a sketch format, rather than a sitcom pilot befitting the BBC's current celebration of the narrative…
David Brent and Foregone Conclusion in Hammersmith
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Eventim Apollo
09/09/2016 … These two nights at the Hammersmith Apollo, tying in with the David Brent: Life On The Road movie, will do nothing to dispel the notion that Ricky Gervais is using…
Thu 08 September 2016
© BBC Lost Sitcoms: Hancock's Half Hour
08/09/2016 … Of all the sitcoms dusted down for the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom season, Hancock's Half Hour has got the most experience behind it.
© BBC/The Comedy Unit Comedy Feeds: Fail
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
08/09/2016 … Another full-length sitcom pilot released under the Comedy Feeds banner, and another which seems to have a very stifled ambition for a strand which, you’d…