Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
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…
© Ellis O Brien 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.
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…
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.
© John Stead Review of the Royal Albert Hall fundraiser
26/03/2025 … Massive charity gigs are there for the taking for lesser-known acts.
Review of the first two episodes of Bridget Christie's retuning comedy
25/03/2025 … Don’t watch the second series of Bridget Christie’s The Change without watching the first – and not just because you’ll be missing out on…
© Guy Bell Review of a raucous new take on the Jane Austen classic
24/03/2025 … Shit-Faced Shakespeare has long desecrated/improved the Bard’s classics by having one of their cast act drunk… and now it’s Jane Austen’s…
© Steven Shakeshaft. Liverpool Echo Review of the new BBC film about the legendary comedian
23/03/2025 … The premise of this lengthy documentary – an exhibition of Ken Dodd memorabilia opening in his Liverpool hometown – is by far the least interesting thing about…
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