Owen O'Neill: Stanza-Up Comedy
01/01/2003 … Even though the artforms are remarkably similar, a comedian doing poetry is normally approached with trepidation - as if the clown suddenly has pretensions of grandeur.
2003 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 01 January 2003
Keith Fields' M@gic.comedy
01/01/2003 … Fields bounds on stage with copious energy and an immediately engaging stage presence.
Miles Jupp: Gentlemen Prefer Brogues
01/01/2003 … Miles Jupp sets out his upper-crust credentials from the start.
Reginald D Hunter
01/01/2003 … In comedy, the sometimes cataclysmic rift between the races usually boils down to some hack telling us that black people dance one way, white people dance another.
James Campbell - Keep Away From Children
01/01/2003 … James Campbell is possibly unique as a comic - in that he performs most of his stand-up to children, with 988 primary schools under his belt.
Andrew Clover: Supercub
01/01/2003 … After proving himself a brilliant over-the-top character performer and a skilled audience ringmaster in previous Edinburgh shows, Andrew Clover is now learning…
John Oliver
01/01/2003 … These are good times for protests: anti-globalisation, anti-war, pro-countryside, there's hardly a layer of society not getting in on the act.