Simon Brodkin: Still Not Himself – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … Any punters who bought tickets on the strength of this character comedian’s appearances on Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder may have high hopes of Brodkin,…
Tue 18 August 2009
Two Left Hands: Another Mouthful– Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … A wet afternoon in the Pleasance Courtyard made for a damp and largely subdued audience; gently steaming (and not in the right way) and not laughing a great deal,…
King Of Everything – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … What a sloppy, unfinished mess: forgotten lines, fluffed cues, corpsing, sketches that peter out just because they get bored performing them, and obscure in-jokes…
Blow Up! The Credit Crunch Musical – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … What screams comedy more than ‘German’? How about a German comedy about the machinations of alpha-generating market-neutral hedge funds and collaterised debt…
Carey Marx: The Doom Gloom Boom – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … Carey Marx brings to mind an old-fashioned comic-book schoolboy.
Mon 17 August 2009
Ghoul reunion
League of gents stars reunited in horror
17/08/2009 … Reece Shearsmith is to be reunited with League Of Gentlemen co-star Mark Gatiss in a new radio series about horror.
Mayall's play tour cancelled
Rik pulled out on doctor's orders
17/08/2009 … A tour of the farce Balmoral has been cancelled after Rik Mayall left the cast.