Nat Coombs – Original Review
01/11/2004 … Nat Coombs has a strangely cold delivery.
2004 Archives
Mon 01 November 2004
Shaun Pye – Original Review
01/11/2004 … As a one-time Evening Standard comedy critic, Pye could easily have set himself up for a pasting from rivals in both journalism and comedy when he took to the stand-up…
Pete Cain – Original Review
01/11/2004 … Cain claims to be the laziest man in comedy, with too few gags to fill his time and no motivation to do anything about it.
Earl Okin – Original Review
01/11/2004 … Forties throwback Okin is a true original; a distinctive, eccentric figure on the stand-up circuit since before such a phrase even existed.
Roland Gent – Original Review
01/11/2004 … Roland Gent starts his punchy set with a giant reproduction of a newspaper story, a hefty prop to be carrying from gig to gig, especially as the only gag to it…
Peter von Natzmer – Original Review
01/11/2004 … Perhaps it’s an EU directive, but there seems to be small groundswell of German comics, both real and fictional, arriving onto the British circuit.
Mark Steel – Original Review
01/11/2004 … Mark Steel was one of the angry young lefties at the forefront of the alternative comedy boom of the Eighties.
Omid Djalili – Original Review
01/11/2004 … A brilliantly barnstorming act, Djalili cheerfully subverts stereotypes in a dazzling, high-octane performance.