Rain Pryor: Fried Chicken & Latkes
01/01/2005 … Rain Pryor has an early warning for anyone expecting to see a female version of her father: ‘This ain’t my daddy’s stand-up.
2005 Archives
Sat 01 January 2005
Alun Cochrane: Comedy With Sad Bits
01/01/2005 … With a title like this, and an explanation that sitcoms and stand-ups always work best when they incorporate moments of sadness, Alun Cochrane makes promises of…
Tom Snyders: The Bicycling Comedian
01/01/2005 … At some point in the Eighties, American comic Tom Snyders decided to start travelling to all his gigs by bicycle – and this slightly idiosyncratic mode of…
Monkey Butlers
01/01/2005 … The Monkey Butlers is a quartet of moderately established stand-ups who’ve chosen to take a foray into sketch comedy – and what a traditional, old-fashioned…
John Oliver & Andy Zaltzman issue a list of de
01/01/2005 … As solo performers, both Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver have their faults.
Shazia Mirza: Between You And Me
01/01/2005 … Shazia Mirza is starting to develop as a comic, four years after September 11 propelled her to a fame far beyond her ability.
The Reggie Watts Tangent
01/01/2005 … The voiceover heralding the arrival of Reggie Watts announces that ‘the performer has consumed a large amount of hashish’.
Back in Town Again: Waltzing Out Of Town
01/01/2005 … The Cambridge Footlights is a curious beast, still producing comics of the calibre of Mark Watson or the Garth Marenghi team, while its own shows tend to be handicapped…