2014 Archives
Tue 18 February 2014
The Mitford Sisters Reunion
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Comedy Festival
18/02/2014 … Not many comedy sketch groups are named after famed fascists, but the Mitford Sisters like to do things a little differently.
Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen (Vol 2)
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Thearte
18/02/2014 … If you didn’t know better, it would be easy to dismiss Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen as a one-joke idea, a whole show spun around the single funny notion inherent…
Putting the wit in Whitsun...
18/02/2014 … COMEDY festivals are returning to Inverness and Stratford-upon-Avon on the ate May bank holiday weekend.
All aboard the chuckle train!
Railway carriage becomes a comedy club
18/02/2014 … Rail passengers en route from London to Glasgow are to be entertained by a stand-up comedy gig.
Citizen Smith beer faces legal action
Robert Lindsay fires warning shot at brewers
18/02/2014 … Sitcom actor Robert Lindsay has fired a legal warning shot at a micro-brewery – demanding they stop using an image of him as Citizen Smith on its beer.
TV pilot for How Do I Get Up There?
Scottish sketch group land BBC show
18/02/2014 … Scottish sketch group How Do I Get Up There? have landed a BBC television pilot.
Are you SURE this is Charles II?
WTF: Daily Mail's historical howler...
18/02/2014 … WTF: Midweek specialThe Daily Mail has always been quick to criticise those who don't share its proud sense of British history.