So You Think You're Funny 2016 final
26/08/2016 … I’m reluctant to mention the fact that seven of the nine finalists in last night’s So You Think You’re Funny? new act final were women, because…
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 26 August 2016
Thu 25 August 2016
Stuart Goldsmith: Compared To What
25/08/2016 … Stuart Goldsmith’s sixth solo show is an unfussy hour of down-the-line observational stand-up, revolving around those most identifiable of subjects for a middle-aged…
The Eulogy
25/08/2016 … Michael Burgos has the attributes to be a great clown: wide eyes, malleable lips, an exaggerated physicality.
Flo & Joan: Victory Flaps
25/08/2016 … If Flanders & Swann and Flight Of The Conchords and Garfunkel & Oates had a six-way time-travelling gang-bang that somehow mixed all their DNA, the offspring…
Wayne Deakin: Talk Hard
25/08/2016 … Elsewhere on the Fringe, Richard Gadd is making the same kind of revelation that closes Wayne Deakin's show the foundation of his entire, award-nominated hour.
Pippa Evans: Same Same But Different
25/08/2016 … Pippa Evans won an Olivier Award as part of improvised musical Showstoppers – ‘It still counts!’ she insists – and now she’s bringing some of that West…
Milo McCabe: The Unflappable Troy Hawke
25/08/2016 … Part of the appeal of Troy Hawke, Milo McCabe's dandified throwback to the 1930s, is that he's always been so incongruous: a matinee idol without the movie contract,…
Brendon Burns: Dumb White Guy
25/08/2016 … Whatever the title, professional provocateur Brendon Burns is rarely struck dumb.