So You Think You're Funny? Best Bits
14/08/2020 … It’s always fun watching before-they-were-famous clips of successful comedians to compare and contrast their early instincts with the gig-honed personas which…
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 14 August 2020
Thu 13 August 2020
© BBC Mandy
13/08/2020 … She’s made her name on TV as Philomena Cunk and as Liz in Motherland, saying the words of some very talented writers.
Thu 06 August 2020
© BBC Semi-Detached with Lee Mack
06/08/2020 … The gimmick of Lee Mack’s new sitcom is that all the action happens in real time – though whether audiences would appreciate, or even notice, the restriction…
Squeamish About...
06/08/2020 … In one of the few TV programmes that can be made in isolation, Matt Berry provides his peculiarly stressed voiceover to a patchwork of unrelated archive clips.
Fri 24 July 2020
© BBC Frankie Boyle: Excited For You To See And Hate This
24/07/2020 … Of all the sentiments that follow the trite contemporary cliché ‘now, more than ever…’, the most unarguable is probably that we all need…
Tue 21 July 2020
© Netflix Jack Whitehall: I'm Only Joking
Netflix special reviewed by Steve Bennett
21/07/2020 … During a mini-rant about vegans in his new special, Jack Whitehall acknowledges that he's going after 'low-hanging fruit'.
Mon 20 July 2020
© Vico Films The Young Offenders, series 3
20/07/2020 … Famously, one of the mantras of the Seinfeld writers was ‘no learning’: whatever happened to their selfish characters, they would display zero emotional…
Fri 10 July 2020
© BBC / Fullwell 73 Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation
10/07/2020 … If you don’t follow sport, the opening few minutes of Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation are likely to grate more than the five minutes of every news bulletin…