Simon Amstell: Live At The BBC
05/12/2013 … First shown on BBC4 on New Year's Eve under its original title Numb, this is an audacious, soul-baring piece of confessional stand-up of the type we've come to…
2013 DVDs
Here are our reviews of comedy DVDs – and the occasional CD. Mainly stand-up, but some sitcoms, sketch shows, documentaries etc too…
Thu 05 December 2013
Wed 04 December 2013
Milton Jones On The Road
04/12/2013 … Milton Jones is a overhead projector comedian in a PowerPoint world; charming and quirky, if a little off the pace everyone else.
Fri 22 November 2013
Tom Stade Live
22/11/2013 … How he tells it, Tom Stade has spent 17 years incarcerated in a stifling marriage that's crushed his dreams, alienated his friends and ruined his fun.
Wed 20 November 2013
Alan Davies: Life Is Pain
20/11/2013 … What a terrible title! Alan Davies’s first stand-up show in a decade sounds as if it’s going to be a soul-eviscerating 90 minutes about the inevitability of…
Wed 11 September 2013
Triple threat: Three US imports
Album reviews by Steve Bennett
11/09/2013 … You Will Die by Joe DeRosa Released by BSeenMedia, October 1 Click here to download from Amazon at £6.
Mon 02 September 2013
Patrice O'Neal: Unreleased
02/09/2013 … The posthumous packaging of any artist’s unreleased material should be always treated with caution, since there’s normally good reason why it never got out…
Wed 28 August 2013
Eddie Pepitone: The Bitter Buddha
28/08/2013 … At times The Bitter Buddha comes over like a promotional video for comedians’ comedian Eddie Pepitone, with high-profile comedy chums like Zach Galifianakis,…
Tue 23 July 2013
Andy And His Grandmother
Review of Andy Kaufman's posthumous debut CD
23/07/2013 … Andy Kaufman never released a comedy album in his lifetime, even though the Seventies and the Eighties, when he was fusing comedy and performance art, were the heyday…