Walliams up for book prize
07/09/2009 … David Walliams’s book about a cross-dressing boy has been nominated for a children’s literary prize.
2009 Archives
Mon 07 September 2009
Sun 06 September 2009
Mat Ewins at the 2009 Chortle Student Comedy Awards final
06/09/2009 … Mat Ewins sets the bar high for a relatively new act, with a fluid gag-driven set, delivered with astute timing.
Tom Rosenthal at the 2009 Chortle Student Comedy Awards final
06/09/2009 … Tom Rosenthal has some clever and original material, if an imperfect delivery.
Gabriel Ebulue at the 2009 Chortle Student Comedy Awards final
06/09/2009 … Newcomer Gabriel Ebulue is fairly traditional in his starting point of smoking dope, going to Amsterdam and getting paranoid, although finding something new in this…
Nicola Bolsover at the 2009 Chortle Student Comedy Awards final
06/09/2009 … Newbie Nicola Bolsover takes her time to get going, with an undergagged routine about how someone once said she looked like Matt Lucas and a long-winded discussion…
Sam Gore at the 2009 Chortle Student Comedy Awards final
06/09/2009 … Accomplished, but still relatively new, Sam Gore thrives on deliciously vitriolic attacks on celebrities, exquisite in their brutal imagery.
Laura Lexx at the 2009 Chortle Student Comedy Awards final
06/09/2009 … Somerset girl Laura Lexx is a next-generation Lucy Porter; she’s small, sweet-natured – and even performs in bare feet.