Zoe Coombs Marr – Dave: The Opener
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
19/04/2022 … A few years ago, it seemed the world might have seen the back of the sexist, hack male comedians making the same old ‘punching down’ jokes to an…
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Tue 19 April 2022
Tom Cashman: Graphs
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
19/04/2022 … Obviously Tom Cashman’s show is geeky – but in the same way as those PR-generated ‘news’ stories which claim something like: ‘scientists…
Michelle Brasier: Reform
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
19/04/2022 … This is the story of an online scam.
Daniel Muggleton: White & Wrong (But Mostly White)
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
19/04/2022 … Daniel Muggleton is not in the most auspicious of Melbourne venues.
Lizzy Hoo: Hoo Cares?
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
19/04/2022 … Lizzy Hoo offers a genial collection of stories, predominantly about her family, but her low-key charm does not inject them with anything more than gentle laughs.
© BBC 'I'm sure the rest of the cast got a bit sick of me...'
Tom Basden on his new BBC One sitcom Here We Go
19/04/2022 … BBC One next week launches a full series of its family comedy Here We Go.
Mon 18 April 2022
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The comedians on Richard Osman’s House Of Games this week
18/04/2022 … Comedians Rachel Fairburn and Des Clarke take on DJ Trevor Nelson and Cranford actress Kimberley Nixon in Richard Osman's House Of Games this week.
© LightField Studios Inc / Alamy Stock Photo Religious jokes and medieval cancel culture
Academic Seb Coxon on the role of humour at Easter
18/04/2022 … Just how serious is Easter? For non-churchgoers (like myself) with a sweet tooth (guilty, again) the answer to this question is probably: not very, although the…