Sez: Keeps Me Young
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
03/04/2025 … Sez has an ease on stage that belies her status as a festival newcomer.
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Thu 03 April 2025
Wed 02 April 2025
MICF: Guy Williams: If You Mildly Criticise Me I’ll Say It’s Cancel Culture And Turn To The Alt Right
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
02/04/2025 … Guy Williams offers a chaotic mix of rage, sarcasm, bleakness and wit, all blasted out with the indiscriminate focus of a spree shooter.
MICF: Gillian Cosgriff: Fresh New Worries
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
02/04/2025 … In her brilliant, award-winning show Actually, Good, Gillian Cosgriff perfectly captured the post-Covid mood by asking her audience to share how they found joy in…
© Christa Holka MICF: Zoë Coombs Marr The Splash Zone
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
02/04/2025 … Zoë Coombs Marr has one word for crowdwork: ‘Yuk.
Mon 31 March 2025
Glasgow International Comedy Festival Gala 2025
Review of the big closing-day event by Jay Richardson
31/03/2025 … It’s a measure perhaps, of the confidence and rude health of Scottish comedy right now, that this showpiece event at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival…
Sat 29 March 2025
© Ellis O Brien Jenny Eclair: Jokes, Jokes Jokes
Review of comedian's show inspired by her memoirs
29/03/2025 … Just before the interval a flash of insecurity crosses Jenny Eclair’s mind.
Fri 28 March 2025
The Iceman: The Final Block
Alternative comedy pioneer coaxed out of retirement
28/03/2025 … The Iceman is surely the act most widely cited to illustrated the weird and wonderful state of the fertile post-punk alternative cabaret circuit which birthed the…
Thu 27 March 2025
Time Travel Is Dangerous
Review of an 'ambitious, charming oddity' of a sci-fi comedy film
27/03/2025 … Comedy and science fiction are notoriously difficult genres to combine.