Slap and Tickle Rehearsed at the Manchester Comedy Festival
22/10/2009 … Slap and Giggle – aka Sid Wick and James Bennison – run an regular student night in Manchester, which is unusual in that they perform a new set of sketch comedy…
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 22 October 2009
Wed 21 October 2009
XS Malarkey, October 20, 2009
21/10/2009 … The one thing lacking from the regular XS Malarkey night held during the Manchester Comedy Festival was a lack of festival spirit.
Seymour Mace headlining Beat The Frog 2009 World Series final
21/10/2009 … Awkward outsider Seymour Mace is a strangely appealing mix of the deranged and the daft, one minute presenting himself – quite convincingly – as a creepy stalker…
Tue 20 October 2009
Katie Mulgrew at the Beat The Frog World Series Final
20/10/2009 … This spritely 24-year-old has an open and likeable style that gives her an easy rapport with the audience.
Ray Bradshaw at the Beat The Frog World Series Final
20/10/2009 … Glaswegian Ray Bradshaw is a very promising writer, able to create some enjoyably twisted punchlines such as his one-liners on wife-beating, which are funny without…
Adam Staunton at the Beat The Frog World Series Final
20/10/2009 … Adam Staunton is very young and very small, and he started off with expected lines on both – a Harry Potter lookalike gag, anyone? – before reinforcing a Scouse…
Shaun Paczkowski at the Beat The Frog World Series Final
20/10/2009 … Shaun Paczkowski offers an engaging presence but no distinctive outlook.
Tom Goodliffe at the Beat The Frog World Series Final
20/10/2009 … The jewel in Tom Goodliffe is his take on the ‘unlikely white boy rapping’ style of comedy that’s become so popular it’s almost a subgenre in itself.