Sam Simmons: Spaghetti For Breakfast
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
01/04/2015 … Sam Simmons has a bugbear about ‘relatable’ comedy – an adjective that’ll never get affixed to his wild, absurdist output.
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Wed 01 April 2015
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Sarah Kendall: A Day In October [Melbourne]
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
01/04/2015 … A Day In October is in content and style a natural progression from Sarah Kendall’s last festival show, Touchdown, as she matures from stand-up to storytelling.
Tue 31 March 2015
Elaine Malcolmson: Arrangements
Glasgow Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
31/03/2015 … There's a striking bit in Elaine Malcolmson's hour where the Northern Irish comic takes herself out of the story she's telling about death and remembrance, to reflect…
Mon 30 March 2015
Alan Carr: Yap, Yap, Yap
Gig review by Steve Bennett at G Live, Guildford
30/03/2015 … There’s an old saying, attributed to 1930s American funnyman Ed Wynn, differentiating innate wit from learned techniques: ‘A comic says funny things; a comedian…
Sun 29 March 2015
America Stands Up
Glasgow Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
29/03/2015 … Always the most compelling entry in the programme for punters hoping to see something new, and the only real justification for 'international' in the Glasgow International…
Fri 27 March 2015
Buttery Brown Monk
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Square Theatre
27/03/2015 … The first thing to say about Buttery Brown Monk is that that their name – like the similarly theological Cardinal Burns’s – comes from their surnames, not…
Thu 26 March 2015
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian TV review: Inside No 9
26/03/2015 … With its wordless opening, it initially looks as if the second series of Inside No 9 is going to repeat the most audacious episode of the first, and create a near-silent…
Mon 23 March 2015
Mel Brooks Live In London
Gig review by Darren Richman at the Prince Of Wales Theatre
23/03/2015 … Mel Brooks is the history of American Jewish humour in human form – and in his eagerly awaited London stage debut at the ripe old age of 88, he entertained…