Who says comedy is a young person’s game? On Sunday night the Leicester Square Theatre is staging the first Old Comedian of the Year Final. Though ‘old’ there means over 35, which is nothing compared... more
Reviews
Dylan Moran is a stealth superstar. At a time when comedians depend on TV to shift tickets this scruffy Irishman avoids panel games and has not done anything of enduring note since his sitcom Black... more
Australian comic Nazeem Hussain has clearly got a sizeable word-of-mouth following in the UK. His first night in Soho was sold out and the audience seemed to be a mix of Asians, Aussies and those... more
Ellie Taylor had one of those audiences last night that could have gone either way. It quickly became apparent that a works outing was in and not just sitting together but scattered around the venue... more
A bit of a change of tone in this week’s improvised celebrity murder mystery. After Jamie Laing and Greg James being very much subordinate to DI Sleet (Tom Davis), Dragon's Den alpha female Deborah... more
So just when you thought every last comic pip had been squeezed out of the election here comes Frankie Boyle. The too-hot-for-mainstream-TV Scot is joined by the so-hot-they-are-on-everything twosome... more
After tackling sex, death, religion and other similarly heavy subjects Richard Herring’s latest show has a more frivolous feel to it. Lord of the Dance Settee is a celebration of the daftness of life... more
It is hard to tell which came first. Eddie Pepitone’s despair at the world around him or his despair at his own position in the world. The two attitudes jostle equally with each other in the American... more
Has Rory Bremner drawn the short straw by coming last in the post-Election post-mortems or has this given him an advantage? While others were completely blindsided by the result but had to respond... more
Radio 1 DJ Greg James is the new police recruit in the second instalment of this bizarre but weirdly watchable celebrity sitcom/impro hybrid. Having been given the briefest of inductions by DI Sleet... more
