Geoffrey Perkins – Original Review
01/09/2008 … One of the most gifted and respected TV comedy producers of his generation, Geoffrey Perkins first nurtured his career at Oxford University, where he collaborated…
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Mon 01 September 2008
Rhona Cameron – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Rhona Cameron has recently returned to the stage after a five-year absence – and the results are decidedly mixed.
Rich Hall – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Grumpily disillusioned American Rich Hall mixes an engaging spontaneity with desert-dry jokes about his homeland and its retarded leader, barking out pithy, politically-aware…
Otis Lee Crenshaw – Original Review
01/09/2008 … In the transitional years of British comedy, folk singers such as Billy Connolly and Jasper Carrott used to banter between their songs until gradually the talking…
Jon Richardson – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Although only a twentysomething, Jon Richardson is a grumpy young man, liking things ‘just so’, and becoming irascible when they’re not.
Jeremy Hardy – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Jeremy Hardy’s peevishness comes not only from a sense of his own middle-age, but also from an irritation that after 23 years preaching his left-wing message,…
Joseph Wilson – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Cheeky newcomer Joseph Wilson’s material tends towards the obvious, appropriating a bit of graffiti he’s seen, doing a hummus/Hamas gag, and a hackneyed take…
Russell Howard: Dingledodies
01/09/2008 … Dingledodies is a word Jack Kerouac invented to describe life-affirming weirdos he was always drawn to, the ‘the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to…