Eve Ellenbogen: Don't Get Mad At Me
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
11/04/2017 … New Yorker Eve Ellenbogen overestimates how fascinating her quirks and hang-ups are.
2017 Archives
Tue 11 April 2017
Fran Middleton: Ceiling Fran
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
11/04/2017 … Newish comedian Fran Middleton starts her show in the boilerplate way of the Gaulier-trained oddball: creating a weird atmosphere and deliberately making the audience…
Quiz answers: April 11
11/04/2017 … 1) Beverley Hillscoptu 2) 2003 3) Kenneth Williams 4) The Phil Silvers Show 5) Karla 6) Her Majesty's (London) 7) 1975 8) Roisin Conaty,…
Aunty Donna: Big Boys
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
11/04/2017 … If using a guitar in comedy is cheating, what is it when you have a full high-powered sound system with a multi-instrumentalist DJ behind you? The answer is Aunty…
Damien Power: Utopia: Now In 3D
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
11/04/2017 … Damien Power is dealing with some odd audience members tonight: the woman who walks across his stage in search of her plus one, the man who makes a phone call from…
Ricky Tomlinson: I had one of my testicles digitally removed
A great story from the Royle Family
11/04/2017 … Ricky Tomlinson has revealed how he had one of his testicles digitally removed.
Double act on the rocks? Try couples therapy
It worked for The Revolution Will Be Televised duo
11/04/2017 … Many comedy double-acts compare their relationship to marriage.
Mon 10 April 2017
'The sense of injustice is wonderful'
Greg Davies on returning to Taskmaster
10/04/2017 … Greg Davies is about to return to Dave as the Taskmaster, setting challenges to a new team of comedians: Noel Fielding , Mel Giedroyc, Hugh Dennis, Lolly…