Chloe Petts: Transience
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
05/08/2022 … Chloe Petts’ catchphrase for this show is that she ‘finally became the man she always wanted to be’: a statement that perfectly captures how utterly…
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Jacob Hawley: Bump
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
04/08/2022 … Jacob Hawley finds himself in a position that most youngish men go through and that many comedians have articulated before.
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Oh No
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
04/08/2022 … He’s still baby-faced enough to get away with a Home Alone spoof as his poster, but it’s been a long time since Christopher Macarthur-Boyd was the…
Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
04/08/2022 … Is it tempting fate for a comedian to talk about how he finds most things just ‘fine’? That away from the polarising pressure of social media which rewards…
Wed 03 August 2022
Ian Cognito: A Life And A Death On Stage
03/08/2022 … No documentary could ever do justice to the force of nature that was Ian Cognito in his terrifying, thrilling fury.
Mon 25 July 2022
Latitude 2022 comedy reviews
Round-up of some of the acts playing the festival, in no particular order...
25/07/2022 … Even though the comedy offering across Latitude’s smaller spaces is less than it used to be, the art of stand-up is still taken seriously here.
Sun 24 July 2022
Reginald D Hunter at Latitude 2022
24/07/2022 … So the 2022 Latitude comedy stage line-up ended not with a bang, but a whimper as Reginald D Hunter’s set fizzled out, leaving the American to cut his losses.
David O’Doherty at Latitude 2022
24/07/2022 … ‘Let’s blow the temporary roof off this meadow!’ David O’Doherty opens his Latitude set with a perfect expression of the contradictory brand…