Karen Dunbar: Glasgow Comedy Festival
01/01/2008 … Karen Dunbar certainly knows the value of nostalgia in building a rapport with her audience.
2008 Archives
Tue 01 January 2008
Ian Cognito: Skate Naked Go Mad in…Glasgow
01/01/2008 … ‘That could be another club I’m banned from,’ Ian Cognito laments as he takes the Glasgow Stand’s stage for the third and possibly final time to close this…
Steve Coogan As Alan Partridge And Other Less Successful Characters
01/01/2008 … Reviewed at the Hammersmith Apollo, November 11, 2008:Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned by the very title of this tour.
Owen Niblock Talks To Inanimate Objects
01/01/2008 … A victim of early Leicester Comedy Festival programme deadlines, Owen Niblock had promised a show in which he talked to inanimate objects - but in the event offered…
Bethany Black: Beth Becomes Her
01/01/2008 … How’s this for a twist on the ubiquitous dick jokes? A personal tale of how one comic lost hers.
Jimeoin On Ice
01/01/2008 … Irishman Jimeoin is something of a stand-up celebrity in Australia, where he now spends most of his time, and it can surely only be these prolonged absences that…
Surviving Spike
01/01/2008 … ‘Michael Barrymore’s dramatic stage debut!’ scream the posters for Surviving Spike – and given his recent history, his return to the stage was never going…
John Lenahan: Up Close
01/01/2008 … Many performers would be disappointed that only a handful of punters braved the early January chill to see them, but veteran comedy-magician John Lenahan says he…