If you are deliberating about whether to go to the Fringe this year watch this documentary and you will definitely decide in the affirmative whether you are a punter or a performer. The ‘spirit of... more
Reviews
Over 400 acts entered this year’s We Got Tickets Musical Comedy Awards, proving that there is clearly plenty of interest in an often-maligned form of comedy. The sold out signs outside the venue also... more
There was a point during Stewart Lee’s final Comedy Vehicle when I thought I could see the cogs moving. I thought I’d cracked it and knew what he was doing. And then he went and pulled the rug and... more
I went to see Adam Riches in Coach Coach at the Soho Theatre the other week and I thought that managed to squeeze in every sports movie cliche in the book. But then last night I saw Eddie the Eagle... more
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
