South African Heavyweight Comedy Jam
01/01/2006 … If their publicity is to believed, the Heavyweight Comedy Jam is something of a phenomenon in South Africa, regularly filling 5,000-seat venues in the towns they…
2006 Archives
Sun 01 January 2006
Tim Minchin: Dark Side
01/01/2006 … Tim Minchin is such a brilliant virtuoso pianist, it would be a pleasure to simply listen to him play for an hour.
Absolutely Presents John Sparkes and Pete Baikie
01/01/2006 … The second show from part of the team responsible for the late, great Absolutely sketch show (we reviewed Frank Hovis’s Filth right at the start of the festival)…
Absolutely Presents Frank Hovis in Filth
01/01/2006 … Telling friends I was off to see one of the stars of the Absolutely TV series elicited either a, ‘Wow is he here?’, or ‘What on earth’s Absolutely?’ For…
David O\'Doherty: Grown Up
01/01/2006 … Having now become a regular fixture at the Fringe, David O’Doherty continues to produce some of the most joyful stand-up comedy known to man in this life-affirming…
Chris Neill - Middle Class Misery: The Board Game
01/01/2006 … Everything you probably really need to know about Chris Neill is conveyed in his off-stage introduction, when he is announced as hailing from an ‘increasingly…
Craig Hill's Got The Ballroom (Soho Theatre)
01/01/2006 … Madonna pumps out of the loudspeakers as a shaven-headed man in a black leather kilt crawls provocatively around on all fours.
Mighty Boosh Live
01/01/2006 … Catch a glimpse of The Mighty Boosh in their late-night BBC slot, and your first reaction is likely to be something along the lines of: ‘Blimey, that’s weird’.