Josh series 2
21/09/2016 … Josh is pretty much a textbook sitcom – but that should not be taken as a ringing endorsement.
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 21 September 2016
Fri 16 September 2016
Rob Carter is Christopher Bliss
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Prince Of Wales, Brixton
16/09/2016 … Rob Carter writes awful, clunky dialogue… and I mean that as a compliment.
Thu 15 September 2016
Red Dwarf XI, Episode One
15/09/2016 … Note: This review contains some spoilers.
Wed 14 September 2016
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.
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…