Sat 11 February 2017
© Steve Ullathorne Danny Baker: From The Cradle To The Stage
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hexagon, Reading
11/02/2017 … ‘I don’t know what this is,’ Danny Baker admits of his first stage show in an eclectic 41-year career, save for one panto season in his Daz-advert…
Fri 10 February 2017
Angelos And Barry: The New Power Generation
10/02/2017 … They are both marginalised characters on the edge of society – either from bored self-destruction, or simply by being old and forgotten.
An Hour With Woody Allen(ish)
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2017 … ‘I shot a moose once…’ And so begins a classic of stand-up, just one of the exquisitely embellished stories which defined Woody Allen as a pioneer of…
Sean Kelly
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2017 … As the host of hit auction show Storage Hunters, Sean Kelly is known for his great salesmanship in pushing goods of wildly variable quality.
Channel 4 comedy chief to quit
Phil Clarke and his No 2 Nerys Evans stand down
10/02/2017 … Channel 4’s head of comedy Phil Clarke is to step down to set up a production company with Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong.