© Claudia Wass Tatiana Ostrakova at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … Tatiana Ostrakova is a Russian stand-up who claims to have come straight from playing Jongleurs Minsk.
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Sun 31 January 2010
© Claudia Wass
Luke Benson at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … Luke Benson is a promising new stand-up whose confidence and delivery has improved vastly over his short career.
Frisky and Mannish at the 2010 Hackney Empire new act final
31/01/2010 … The Hackney Empire new act final was opened by the ever-glamourous, ever-popular cabaret duo Frisky and Mannish, surprisingly well-established for such a new act…
Tue 26 January 2010
The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek
26/01/2010 … I’m sure that at the time Monty Python’s Flying Circus must have sounded like a terrible moniker for a comedy group, but it’s hard to get excited by the name…
Mon 25 January 2010
Matt Grantham at the Comedy Stop
25/01/2010 … Matt Grantham is what Andy Parsons would sound like with an Australian accent.
Sharon Mahoney at the Comedy Stop
25/01/2010 … It’s either a sign of national insecurity, or just too many infuriating cases of mistaken identity, but almost every jobbing Canadian comic seems to have a joke…
Jason Patterson at the Comedy Stop
25/01/2010 … Jason Patterson absolutely sounds the part.
Rachel Anderson at the Comedy Stop
25/01/2010 … Still relatively new on the circuit, Rachel Anderson combines an innate Geordie charm with increasingly assured writing.