© BBC Lenny Henry's Rogues Gallery
18/05/2016 … There’s more than a whiff of Tales Of The Unexpected about Lenny Henry’s new radio series – and as a child of the 1980s, I’m sure he wouldn’t want it any…
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 18 May 2016
© BBC Tue 17 May 2016
For Little Alan
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue
17/05/2016 … Party like it’s 1994! The boys in the Pub Band are back together – and exploding into silliness.
Mon 16 May 2016
Notflix
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
16/05/2016 … Showstoppers! brought musical improv to the West End… while Notflix only serves to show how wide the gulf between rank-and-file improvisers and their starry cousins…
Sun 15 May 2016
Dave Bailey: Beige Against The Machine
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
15/05/2016 … True to the title, Dave Bailey spends a portion of his set berating those people with limited drive and conformist taste, calling them ‘beige people’.
Best Boy
15/05/2016 … Male double act Best Boy have a handful of excellent ‘tentpole’ sketches – most notably an enjoyably anarchic finale – but they prop up some pretty flimsy…
Fri 13 May 2016
Mum
13/05/2016 … Mum, the new sitcom from Him & Her writer Stefan Golaszewski, is a quietly lovely piece of work: funny, poignant and sharply observed – and with an…
Peter Antoniou: Happy Medium
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
13/05/2016 … After a booming Vegas-style voiceover, comedy mindreader (or ‘comedium’) Peter Antoniou warms us up with some call-and-response hollers, pitching one…
Giacinto Palmieri: Nietzsche, Women And I
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
13/05/2016 … At one point in this show, Giacinto Palmieri reminds us of the old adage that comedy equals tragedy plus time.