Can you be funny when it is daylight outside? It’s a challenge for comedy tents at festivals and yesterday it was a challenge for the New Acts of the Year competition, which kicked off at the ungodly... more
Reviews
Being a comedian often seems like a way of refusing to grow up, settle down and become an adult. No boring mortgages for these dudes eh? Add to that a general feeling these days that nobody wants to... more
I missed the press night of this new play about comedian Marty Feldman so I booked a ticket for the next night. Then I made a fatal error. I read the reviews. This play had received such bad notices... more
Notebooks and pens out, Robert Newman has a new show. The one-time rock and roll stand-up has always been a bit of a clever clogs and in recent years he has taken his comedy in a distinctly... more
A new comedy featuring young people living together? If you are looking for something to fill a Peep Show-shaped void in your life I’m not sure if Crashing will do the job. It's fun but the cast is... more
Last time we saw Brian Pern he had had a heart attack and it looked like he might be retiring. But you don’t get rid of prog rockers like Pern – played by Simon Day – that easily. He is on TV again... more
The annual curtain-raiser for Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival gives fans a flavour of what they can expect when the festival kicks off in February. Not necessarily the biggest acts, but it is a... more
I’ve got all sorts of mixed feelings about the return of Tracey Ullman to British sketch comedy, It’s great to see an older face get a series. Even greater that it’s a woman. On the other hand why... more
If you want to get ahead in stand-up get a beard. Not very fair on female comedians, but that seemed to be the message during the first comedy final of 2016. Facial hair dominated the competition,... more
And so Matt Berry starts 2016 in typically vociferous style with his, sob, final Matt Berry Does…And appropriately he is looking at seasonal excess in Happy New You as the nation lets out an almighty... more
