Ricky Gervais signs up to kids' film
14/04/2017 … Ricky Gervais has signed up to a forthcoming children’s film.
2017 Archives
Fri 14 April 2017
Steen Raskopoulos: The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Steen Raskopoulos isn’t going to mess with a winning formula.
Tom Walker: Bee Boo
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Oh, this is a gloriously, relentlessly, irrepressibly unhinged blast of off-the-wall insanity; a white-knuckle ride of manic enthusiasm enough to give prop comedy…
Angus Gordon: Sad Boy Comedy Hour
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … On leaving Angus Gordon’s debut show, we’re all handed a three-page, tightly-spaced academic tract on antagonism in art, citing Rirkri Tiravanija’s…
Alex Ward: Quiet
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Alex Ward is a newcomer whose inexperience – both of comedy and of life – are all-too apparent in her festival debut.
Rhys Nicholson: I'm Fine
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … Rhys Nicholson is only 27 but exudes the confidence of a man who knows exactly who he is, from the exquisitely tailored appearance to the waspish superiority of…
Chelsea Zeller: High Achievers
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
14/04/2017 … With her festival debut, Chelsea Zeller proves herself to be a versatile, energetic and engaging comic actress, likeable even when her characters aren’t.
John Cleese to address Oxford Union
14/04/2017 … John Cleese is to address the Oxford Union on the topic of ‘Why is there no hope?’ The comic – who is set to return to TV for his first BBC…