Surviving Spike
01/01/2008 … ‘Michael Barrymore’s dramatic stage debut!’ scream the posters for Surviving Spike – and given his recent history, his return to the stage was never going…
Tue 01 January 2008
John Lenahan: Up Close
01/01/2008 … Many performers would be disappointed that only a handful of punters braved the early January chill to see them, but veteran comedy-magician John Lenahan says he…
Matt Green: Grow Up Green
01/01/2008 … There is a tangible anxiety when the audience is confronted by the absurdly youthful looking Matt Green, which increases when a very deep and self assured voice…
Book Club At The British Library
01/01/2008 … It’s bad news for the charity shops of West London.
Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show 2008
01/01/2008 … One of the biggest events of the Leicester Comedy Festival is its preview show, where acts who might only be playing in rooms holding a few dozen people come February…
Deadly Funny 2008
01/01/2008 … Any fears that the indigenous Australian comedians taking part in the Deadly Funny competition might be too culturally distant for a white Englishman like me to…
Not Everything Is Significant
01/01/2008 … Though in the theatre section of the programme, Ben Moor’s charming and original one-man play contains some of the most brilliantly sublime comic lines of the…
O'Comics 2008
01/01/2008 … If you were looking for a theme to unite most of the Irish comedians on this showcase, it would have to be their sexually inadequacy.