Luke Benson's Big Night Out (In the Afternoon)
22/09/2016 … 'Anyone here drinking tonight?’ Luke Benson starts his show with the same audience-wrangling line every comedian deploys when faced with a rowdy club room –…
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 22 September 2016
Wed 21 September 2016
Josh series 2
21/09/2016 … Josh is pretty much a textbook sitcom – but that should not be taken as a ringing endorsement.
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,…