Call Jonathan Pie
Review of the spoof news reporter's new BBC radio comedy
09/06/2023 … Has the BBC muted Jonathan Pie? Not directly – but the first venture into radio for Tom Walker’s disillusioned political journalist is an uneasy…
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Fri 09 June 2023
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© Quay Street Productions/ITVX Significant Other
Review of Youssef Kerkour and Katherine Parkinson's new ITVX comedy
08/06/2023 … By starting with an overdose attempt and a heart attack, Significant Other couldn’t signal its intentions to be an unconventional romcom any more clearly.
Tue 06 June 2023
James Austin Johnson: The Age of JAJ
Review of Saturday Night Live's Trump impersonator in London
06/06/2023 … James Austin Johnson is a brilliant mimic, no doubt about that, having made a huge splash with his Donald Trump and Joe Biden impersonations when he joined Saturday…
Fri 02 June 2023
Ben Hodge: It’s A Boy?
02/06/2023 … It’s A Boy? is Ben Hodge’s account of his trans journey – a route that took him on so many diversions that he’s now pretty much completed…
Thu 01 June 2023
Mustafa Algiyadi’s A Little Killing Hurts No One
01/06/2023 … A warm and engaging comic, Mustafa Algiyadi greets the audience as they enter the pub, let alone the intimate room he’s performing in.
Nir Gottleid: Middle Rage
01/06/2023 … An Israeli comic based in Berlin, Nir Gottleid describes himself as ‘one of the darkest comics’ in Europe, and sells his show about ageing by promising…
© ITV/Baby Cow Changing Ends
Review of Alan Carr's new autobiographical ITVX sitcom
01/06/2023 … Changing Ends beams with warmth despite – or more likely because of – the endemic 1980s homophobia which forms its backdrop.
Wed 31 May 2023
Brown Girls Do It Too: Mama Told Me Not To Come
Review of the stage show spawned from Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani's podcast
31/05/2023 … OK, so there’s some talk about masturbation and a version of Peggy Lee’s Fever that mentions ‘pussy juice’.