Cissie and Ada: An Hysterical Rectomy
Theatre review by Steve Bennett
29/03/2013 … They are comedy’s equivalent of the jukebox musicals: plays about dead comics that can draw both on nostalgia and an established back-catalogue of writing.
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Fri 29 March 2013
Tue 26 March 2013
'There really isn’t any anarchy in TV comedy these days'
Steve Oram picks his comedy favourites
26/03/2013 … John Shuttleworth: 500 Bus StopsI’ve loved John Shuttleworth since I was a teenager.
Mon 25 March 2013
'Wherever there is lack of self-awareness, there will be laughs'
Alice Lowe chooses her comedy favourites
25/03/2013 … Three Miles North Of Molkom I think the greatest comedy comes from truth and so I often find documentaries to be the funniest things.
Fri 22 March 2013
Found Footage Festival
Glasgow International Comedy Festival Review by Jay Richardson
22/03/2013 … Long before the lawless frontier of the internet there was VHS.
Thu 21 March 2013
Izzard in a blizzard
Bruce Dessau at the Altitude festival
21/03/2013 … After a spell in Meribel and now three years in Mayerhofn in Austria the Altitude Festival has established itself as an appealing part of the increasingly crowded…
Mon 18 March 2013
Who'd have thought David Copperfield could do comedy?
Piff The Magic Dragon chooses his favourite clips
18/03/2013 … Stuff the White Rabbit: Tom MullicaGrowing up it's fair to say I hated magic.
Wed 13 March 2013
Stand-up is not a fashion show
Doc Brown on his comedy favourites
13/03/2013 … The JerkThis may seem a weird one to include, as I know it's not held in the highest of esteem.
Mon 11 March 2013
When you take something as beautiful and indefinable as good comedy and regard it as ‘product’, then it’s spoilt
Kevin Eldon is hoping for a punky revolution
11/03/2013 … Kevin Eldon has a peerless television résumé, after appearing in Brass Eye, 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Look Around You, Big Train, Black Books, I'm Alan Partridge,…