Jeremy Hardy – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Jeremy Hardy’s peevishness comes not only from a sense of his own middle-age, but also from an irritation that after 23 years preaching his left-wing message,…
2008 Archives
Mon 01 September 2008
Jon Richardson – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Although only a twentysomething, Jon Richardson is a grumpy young man, liking things ‘just so’, and becoming irascible when they’re not.
Brendon Burns – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Bilious and sweary Brendon Burns is, on the surface, simply another aggressive, swaggering Aussie talking filth, but behind the hard-edged material lies some smart…
Jenny Eclair – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Jenny Éclair is in her late 40s and 'falling to pieces’.
Otis Lee Crenshaw – Original Review
01/09/2008 … In the transitional years of British comedy, folk singers such as Billy Connolly and Jasper Carrott used to banter between their songs until gradually the talking…
Rich Hall – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Grumpily disillusioned American Rich Hall mixes an engaging spontaneity with desert-dry jokes about his homeland and its retarded leader, barking out pithy, politically-aware…
Rhona Cameron – Original Review
01/09/2008 … Rhona Cameron has recently returned to the stage after a five-year absence – and the results are decidedly mixed.