This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
Angela Barnes is a rising star of the comedy circuit who does what every aspiring stand-up dreams of doing. She puts the audience immediately at their ease with her friendly, chatty style. It looks effortless. It takes talent and hard work.
Well, this new topical comedy was certainly written up to the wire by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. Gags about Muhammed Ali, Mick Hucknall, Sports Direct, Harry Potter, John Major and Clinton getting the Presidential nomination confirmed that. And a topical story also gave Tory mandarin Jack Dee his best line: “Better go and stick my head in Noel Edmonds’ magic box.”
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
Where would Marcus Brigstocke be without issues? His last set explored his food addiction, this time it is a more wide-ranging mix of mid-life angst and heartbreak. Luckily for us his misery-mining makes for excellent entertainment.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
David Baddiel has never shied away from honesty but he is more brutally honest than ever in My Family: Not The Sitcom. Not about himself so much this time, but about his parents.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
If you ever stay at Sara Pascoe’s house do not use her electric tooth- brush. One of the various intimate revelations in this brisk, condensed version of her touring show Animal explains what she does with it. Dental hygiene is not involved.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
The trigger for Canadian comic Mae Martin’s latest show, Us, was her relationship break-up. When she was writing her Tinder profile to get back in the dating saddle she reflected on her sexuality. She had been “Gay Mae” but what was she now? And why label anyway?
Four-time Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated James Acaster has announced a full UK tour this autumn. He will be performing his latest show Reset, following his upcoming 2016 run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The tour starts on September 21 in Cardiff and finishes at the Lyric Theatre in London on December 5.
The audition clip of The Boy With Tape On His Face on America's Got Talent has gone viral on YouTube.
At the time of writing it has not been up for much more than a day and has already been viewed almost five million times.
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