Boy Meets Girl
03/09/2015 … Forget the long set-ups; the premise for Boy Meets Girl is established in six words before the credits roll: Two people on a date and the woman confides: ‘I was…
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Thu 03 September 2015
© BBC/ ITV Cradle Ltd/Matt Squire Cradle To Grave
03/09/2015 … Peter Kay involved in some 1970s nostalgia? Surely not!His casting in Cradle To Grave, the sitcom based on Danny Baker’s teenage years in Bermondsey, is probably…
Misery Loves Comedy
03/09/2015 … You might remember Kevin Pollak from the 2005 film The Aristocrats, in which he impersonated Christopher Walken telling a version of the infamously filthy joke.
Tue 01 September 2015
228 comedy reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe
01/09/2015 … Funz and Gamez Tooz James Acaster: Represent Joe Lycett: That's The Way, A-Ha A-Ha, Joe Lycett John Robins: Speakeasy Kieran Hodgson: Lance Mae Martin:…
Jordan Brookes: Adventures In Limited Space
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
01/09/2015 … Had it not been for his nomination for a Comedians’ Choice award, Jordan Brookes might have flown under the radar completely this Fringe.
Mon 31 August 2015
Cassandra: Mary Canary
31/08/2015 … Decent magic tricks are packed up in an unedifying stream of cheap, lazy sex gags in this largely wit-free character-cabaret hybrid.
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ Phil Nichol: I Don't Want To Talk About It
31/08/2015 … ‘Crazy Uncle Phil’ fires straight out the blocks with the supercharged, head-spinning frenetic energy we’ve come to expect, covering more ground in the first…
Eleanor Tiernan: Don't Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan
31/08/2015 … There’s a story in Don’t Cry For Me Eleanor Tiernan when she recounts appearing on a daytime TV show in Ireland, during which the subject of the horse-meat…