Giada Garofalo at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … Italian Giada Garofalo promises some unique material about her country’s political class and Silvio Berlusconi’s antics.
Tue 22 September 2009
Katerina Vrana at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … Katerina Vrana fizzles with verve and confident likeability, even if remarks about being a cross between two celebrities and moaning about British drizzle don’t…
Rhona McKenzie at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … Relative newcomer Rhona McKenzie offers an earthy set, with cheap-laugh references to the likes of camel toes, overgrown bushes and big pants, which she’s not…
Catherine Semark at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … Though a relative newcomer, well-spoken Catherine Semark has understated elegance and quiet confidence, that draws the audience in – even though her routine is…
© Claudia Wass Jo Selby as Tatiana Ostrakova at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … Jo Selby's character of Russian comedian Tatiana Ostrakova, fresh from Jongleurs Minsk, was a highlight of the night.
Elizabeth Mee at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … Elizabeth Mee admits she’s a stereotype: middle-aged and upper-middle-class, she’s Radio 4 in human form, and makes predictable references to Agas and children…
Mon 21 September 2009
Too old to be funny?
Ashlea Dutton, 16, wonders if comics have a sell-by date
21/09/2009 … Does the comedy scene belong to the younger model? In the showroom are the flashy Porsches named Whitehall, Kane and Donnelly, revving up technology-based gags,…
peacock21
21/09/2009 … PEACOCK SEASON, the low-budget film about the Edinburgh Fringe starring many of the festival's comics, is receiving an advance screening at London's Leicester Square…