A version of this review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
The line-up has been annnounced for this year's Jewish Comedian of the Year Final.
The six performers will compete for the title at JW3 in north London on Saturday, December 5. The show is compered by Gareth Berliner and is part of the current Jewish Comedy Festival at the venue. Tickets here.
Matt Berry has announced that he and his band The Maypoles will be playing Take My Hand, the theme tune to Toast of London, live over the titles and end credits when the next episode of the hit sitcom goes out on Wednesday, December 9.
Berry tweeted the news earlier today. He and his band are currently on a UK tour, which finishes at the Forum in Kentish Town on December 10. Tickets here.
American comedian Dave Chappelle is to employ pioneering technology to stop his audience using mobile phones during his sets. The stand-up superstar is testing the technology, made by San Fancisco company Yondr, at his current Chicago appearances.
I've had that John Robertson in the back of my lounge. A while back I was unable to go to his Dark Room show so he very kindly came to me to perform a bespoke intimate version. It was great fun but I am sure it is better when there is a crowd of people competing in what can only really be described as a live, immersive video game. If you like to indulge in funny, potentially scary choose-you-own-adventure activities this will be right up your street.
The eighth series of panel show the Museum of Curiosity, presented by John Lloyd and new host Sarah Millican, will air on Radio 4 at 6.30pm on Mondays from 11th January to 15th February, and repeated 12.00pm on Sundays, from 17th January to 21st February.
Musical comedian Adam Kay has encountered a problem with people buying tickets for his current Adam Kay’s Smutty Christmas Songs tour.
Every couple of years I sit down at my laptop and write the words "why isn't Boothby Graffoe a household name?". It's that time again. I don't like to use the word genius but I'll happily use it when referring to this seasoned musical comic. Graffoe fits into a long line of absurdist comics, from Spike Milligan to Vic and Bob. You don't quite know which direction Graffoe's material is coming from and you often don't know which direction it is going until it gets there.
I'm sure I was not the first person to say that Nunhead-based American Lewis Schaffer is like a real-life Rupert 'King of Comedy' Pupkin and I doubt if I will be the last. But things are changing. In the last year Schaffer - who had always been a car crash comic hellbent on self-destructing onstage even when things were going well – seems to have got his act together. Or at least written a show. His Edinburgh Fringe show had a theme, a narrative and a kicker of a pay-off.
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