Simon Slack – The Fantasist
19/08/2016 … When we first meet Simon Slack, he is hunched over his laptop, furiously jerking off, in what becomes an exaggerated ballet of masturbation – a phrase that could…
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Fri 19 August 2016
Viv Groskop: Be More Margo
19/08/2016 … This is a delightful, daffy hour on middle class mores, family, Brexit and whatnot.
Thu 18 August 2016
Susan Calman: The Calman Before The Storm
18/08/2016 … Susan Calman insists you’ve got the wrong impression of her.
Mark Silcox: Helping Aamer
18/08/2016 … Anti-comedian Mark Silcox performed one of my least favourite shows of last year’s Fringe, his wilfully unfunny talk on electrochemiluminescence and tediously…
Emma Sidi: Telenovela
18/08/2016 … Emma Sidi has worked out that, to British audiences at least, speaking in Spanish is funny.
Jiggle & Hyde Present: Sketchy Mother Pluckers
18/08/2016 … A mini-conference suite is a hard place to crack a smile, but those who made it to the eighth floor of the Jurys Inn hotel were rewarded with an entertaining hour…
Sofie Hagen: Shimmer Shatter
18/08/2016 … Sofie Hagen saves all her goodies until the end… you don’t really know where all her anecdotes are leading until the coda after the bucket speech asking for…