When chills go up your spine at a Lady Bolognese show there are a number of reasons for them. They’re all good, in my book. Compulsive by way of menace-eliciting-childish-delight sets the tone for... more
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Likeable from the off, Kohli starts gag-rapid, quickly establishing a lovely audience rapport. Making note that the show falls on both VE Day and the day the mass local election results come out, he... more
I was asked to recommend a contemporary comedy the other night to someone who doesn't watch much TV and without hesitation I said Amandaland, even though at the time I hadn't seen any of the second... more
Confession. I was never a big fan of Schitt's Creek. I liked it without ever quite loving it. So I've come to Big Mistakes not knowing a lot about Dan Levy who co-stars and co-created this caper... more
I could have saved myself a lot of time as a judge at this year’s Sketch Off Final. By a quirk of running order, my first three choices were the first three acts out of twelve, in precisely that... more
If you want to get into the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards final get a guitar. But if you want to win it do something different. That was the takeaway of another strong final that was... more
Ian Fletcher (Hugh Bonneville) is back and after using his portfolio of skills to help out the BBC and the London Olympics now he has crossed the Atlantic to run a department involved in the imminent... more
Riki Lindhome jokes at the start of Dead Inside that although her musical comedy show is about her “fertility journey” she hates the term “journey” when it is used in this context. You wouldn’t call... more
I think it would be fair to say that you could describe Alasdair Beckett-King's look as distinctive without worrying that a defamation charge will land in your inbox. Long auburn/copper hair, mud-... more
From Fawlty Towers to Have I Got News for You it's usually America that adapts English shows, so that already makes the UK version of US comedy warhorse Saturday Night Live an anomaly. Plus there's a... more
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