Rob Gee: Fruitcake at the 2010 Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2010 … There’s a theory that large parts of comedy involve laughing at the mentally ill – everyone from Basil Fawlty to Larry David is only one outburst away from a…
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Wed 10 February 2010
Tue 09 February 2010
Balkan Espresso at the 2010 Leicester Comedy Festival
09/02/2010 … The scale of the challenge facing the Slovenian and Croatian comedians of Balkan Espresso shouldn’t be underestimated.
Mon 08 February 2010
Clean (As Possible) Comedy Show at the 2010 Leicester Comedy Festival
08/02/2010 … Judging by the queues to get into this show, there’s certainly a demand for clean comedy; primarily from parents who want to introduce their offspring to stand-up…
Paul Kerensa: Borderline Racist at the 2010 Leicester Comedy Festival
08/02/2010 … There’s a slightly provocative edge to a title like Borderline Racist that nice-guy comic Paul Kerensa can’t live up to.
Sun 07 February 2010
Liam Mullone: Leicester Comedy Festival 2010
07/02/2010 … Somewhere in the shaded Venn diagram overlap between Eddie Izzard and Dylan Moran lies the careworn, haphazard comedy of Liam Mullone.
Gary Colman Is Very Rarely Rong: Leicester Comedy Festival 2010
07/02/2010 … This Gary Colman isn’t the tiny wife-beating sitcom star, as he understandably has to point out from the get-go, but a former doctor for the SAS.
Postcards On The Edge: Leicester Comedy Festival 2010
07/02/2010 … It would surely be churlish to complain that a show billed as being inspired by saucy seaside postcards is old-fashioned; though Postcards On The Edge contains no…
Mon 01 February 2010
Tim Vine: Joke-amotive tour
01/02/2010 … Comedians, by and large, present their art surprisingly seriously.