Reviews

Anyone who has visited Glasgow will know what a seductive city it is. I was there for the Comedy Festival a couple of weeks ago and even though I’ve got a partner and family in London I still thought... more
One thing in particular intrigues me about Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. It felt as if he was doing warm-ups and works-in-progress for this series for at least a year in advance around the UK. I... more
My partner couldn’t join me for Francis Veber’s The Painkiller last night as she was at the theatre elsewhere. She had gone to see a play by another French writer, Jean Genet’s The Maids, at... more
Jena Friedman certainly looks like she has plenty of attitude in her surly press shots. And calling her show American C*nt – even with an asterisk – is quite audacious. Onstage, however, she is less... more
Conspiracy theorists can have a field day with the fact that in some places episode four was billed as The Migrant Crisis. In fact our stand-up sage-cum-holy-fool is here to guide us through his... more
The latest volume of Alexei Sayle’s autobiography, following Stalin Ate My Homework, takes us through the most exciting – and contrasting – years of his life. At the start he is a penniless student,... more
The usual process is that a comedian does a hit show and gets a book deal out of it. Isy Suttie has done things the other way round. She has a hit book, The Actual One, and has now turned it into a... more
The most interesting point Stewart Lee makes in the third episode of his current series, subtitled ‘Patriotism’, comes at the start when he talks about the biggest problem the modern satirist faces.... more
It is so hard to write about this excellent comedy thriller without giving something away. Needless to say the final episode in which the loose ends have to be tied up - probably around one of the... more
Stop/Start is the sort of sitcom which would prompt the Daily Mail/Express to say “At last, a BBC sitcom that is actually funny.” Yes, Stop/Start is pretty broad and pretty old fashioned but it is... more
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