Chris Martin: No, Not That One
23/08/2011 … Chris Martin comes out on stage to a riff that puts me in mind of Prodigy – is this an omen? I'm certainly wondering whether his debut Fringe show will signify…
2011 Archives
Tue 23 August 2011
Dicking A Great Big Hole
23/08/2011 … Jodie Dick is a comedian who breaks all the rules.
Mabbs & Justice: Love Machine
23/08/2011 … Often as a reviewer you find yourself at odds with an audience – hating some easy fodder that’s getting lots of laughs, or loving something that deserves more.
Josie Long: The Future Is Another Planet
23/08/2011 … ‘Silly, friendly, ramshackle, impassioned’ goes the printed programme blurb for Josie Long’s show – written months before the festival starts.
Auntie Netta and The Trouble With Asian Men
23/08/2011 … This double-bill from the producers of the film comedy East Is East mixes very different types of comedy – even within the same act.
Mon 22 August 2011
Inbetweeners movie smashes records
£13.2million in its opening weekend
22/08/2011 … The Inbetweeners has had the biggest opening box office weekend of any British comedy or independent film.
Final two leave Show Me The Funny
Goodbye to Goldsmith and Taylor
22/08/2011 … Ellie Taylor and Stuart Goldsmith have both been eliminated from ITV’s stand-up competition Show Me The Funny.