'They don't want anything interesting or edgy'
23/08/2014 … Frankie Boyle has launched a typically forthright attack on risk-averse TV commissioners, toothless middle-class satire and the lack of women on panel shows.
2014 Archives
Sat 23 August 2014
Joseph Morpurgo: Odessa
23/08/2014 … A breakout hit from last year’s Fringe, Joseph Joseph Morpurgo has followed up Truthmouth with a strange, multi-character show, part gumshoe detective procedural,…
Jeff Leach: Fit
23/08/2014 … Jeff Leach has a Keith Richards-like ability to seem to move constantly, he almost dances about the stage.
Barry Ferns: The Barry Experience
23/08/2014 … Barry Ferns is the master of promotion.
Dave Hughes: Pointless
23/08/2014 … I’ve been bursting to see some kick-arse stand-up all Fringe, and was beginning to it wasn’t going to happen.
The Closure Of Craig Solly
23/08/2014 … With reddened, distant eyes and his usual BBC Three-friendly hair slicked tightly back, using a comb with the precision and intensity of a cut-throat razor to perfect…
Paul Ricketts: West End Story
23/08/2014 … Coincidentally it's Paul Ricketts' birthday today, he tells us just in case we hadn't spotted the 'Happy Birthday' gift bag prominently displayed on the stage.
Jen Brister: Wishful Thinking
23/08/2014 … Growing up a half-Spanish lesbian in Norfolk was defiance itself ventures Jen Brister, so she needn't feel too guilty about never having performed political comedy.