Chris Neill - Middle Class Misery: The Board Game
01/01/2006 … Everything you probably really need to know about Chris Neill is conveyed in his off-stage introduction, when he is announced as hailing from an ‘increasingly…
2006 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 01 January 2006
Craig Hill's Got The Ballroom (Soho Theatre)
01/01/2006 … Madonna pumps out of the loudspeakers as a shaven-headed man in a black leather kilt crawls provocatively around on all fours.
Mighty Boosh Live
01/01/2006 … Catch a glimpse of The Mighty Boosh in their late-night BBC slot, and your first reaction is likely to be something along the lines of: ‘Blimey, that’s weird’.
BBC London Children in Need benefit
01/01/2006 … Amid all the high-profile fundraising comedy spectaculars, one night has been a low-key, but regular, fixture in the comedy calendar for many years, known only to…
Lick & Chew
01/01/2006 … A fast moving, energetic and colourful show filled with well observed characters including a Hollywood wannabe waiter to a new take on The King of jazz; Jamie Cullum.
Abnormally Funny People
01/01/2006 … There’s always a danger a show that collects together comics only because they have a disability of some form will be seen as some sort of freak show, albeit one…
The Oxford Revue
01/01/2006 … It’s always something of a disappointment when student comedy troupes, from where the next generation of stars might be expected to spring, seem so wedded to he…
Ray Peacock & Son
01/01/2006 … There’s a lot of comic potential in the blunt, unreconstructed flat-capped Yorkshireman that is Ray Peacock – even if it’s not fully realised here.