Ronnie Corbett: I was nearly an ape
18/04/2014 … • 'An artist moaning about the critics is like a sailor moaning about the waves.
2014 Archives
Fri 18 April 2014
Thu 17 April 2014
Scott Dooley: Debut
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
17/04/2014 … Radio host turned fast-paced comic Scott Dooley has a lot of the skills to deliver a strong stand-up show, but it’s marred by too many second-hand tricks –…
Amos Gill: You've Changed
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
17/04/2014 … Amos Gill has all the ingredients to be a strong comic, but somehow he’s cooked them up to being a light, forgettable snack rather than a satisfying cordon blu…
Shooting starts on Babylon series
17/04/2014 … Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong’s police-based comedy-drama Babylon is to return for a six-part series.
Stella Young: Tales From The Crip
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
17/04/2014 … Stella Young has built her comedy on sarcastically mocking the patronising, often crass, attitudes of the liberal classes to her disability.
The Alberts clown Tony Gray dies at 86
Influence on Milligan and the Bonzos
17/04/2014 … Tony Gray, one of Britain’s more eccentric and best-known clowns of the Fifties and Sixties, has died at the age of 86.
Wed 16 April 2014
Ivan Aristeguieta: Lost In Pronounciation
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
16/04/2014 … Stick yet another pin in the global map of countries where English-speaking comedians come from: Venezuela.