BBC London Children in Need benefit
01/01/2006 … Amid all the high-profile fundraising comedy spectaculars, one night has been a low-key, but regular, fixture in the comedy calendar for many years, known only to…
2006 Archives
Sun 01 January 2006
Lick & Chew
01/01/2006 … A fast moving, energetic and colourful show filled with well observed characters including a Hollywood wannabe waiter to a new take on The King of jazz; Jamie Cullum.
Abnormally Funny People
01/01/2006 … There’s always a danger a show that collects together comics only because they have a disability of some form will be seen as some sort of freak show, albeit one…
The Oxford Revue
01/01/2006 … It’s always something of a disappointment when student comedy troupes, from where the next generation of stars might be expected to spring, seem so wedded to he…
Ray Peacock & Son
01/01/2006 … There’s a lot of comic potential in the blunt, unreconstructed flat-capped Yorkshireman that is Ray Peacock – even if it’s not fully realised here.
In The Bath: Unplugged
01/01/2006 … Rowing the English Channel in just a bathtub almost claimed Tim Fitzhigham’s life.
Tippy Top: A Tribute To Linda Smith
01/01/2006 … More than 1,500 people packed into London’s Victoria Palace Theatre last night, but the comedian they had all come for would never appear.
Gina Yashere: I Don't Think So
01/01/2006 … After a decade on the circuit, Gina Yashere now finds herself making the transition from club to theatre, a new environment which she seems reticent to embrace.