Robin Ince\'s Christmas Book Club 2006
18/12/2006 … From modest beginnings, Robin Ince’s Book Club has attracted enough like-minded souls for Edinburgh runs, a national tour and now this Christmas special in a proper…
2006 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 18 December 2006
Thu 07 December 2006
John Gordillo – Original Review
07/12/2006 … Back on the circuit after a few years’ hiatus, John Gordillo remains a refreshing performer, with a canon of intelligent, provocative material.
Wed 06 December 2006
Chris Neill – Original Review
06/12/2006 … Had Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd fathered a child, chances are he’d have turned out something like Chris Neill, a BBC radio producer and broadcaster turned…
Tue 05 December 2006
Tim Clark – Original Review
05/12/2006 … Tim Clark is a near-permanent fixture on the rosters of Jongleurs and the Comedy Store – a long-established act who gives the often intoxicated audiences of the…
Tue 28 November 2006
Ava Vidal – Original Review
28/11/2006 … Ava Vidal’s biggest asset is her stage presence.
Jen Brister – Original Review
28/11/2006 … Zany foreign parents are almost a staple of modern stand-up, but the portrayal of the bonkers Spanish mother at the core of Jen Brister’s routine is elevated well…
Thu 23 November 2006
Ben Hurley – Original Review
23/11/2006 … Ben Hurley has won armfuls of comedy awards in his native New Zealand – but then it is a very small country.
Tue 21 November 2006
© Adam Ethan Crow Mark Maier – Original Review
21/11/2006 … Mark Maier is as understated as he is underrated; an experienced artisan of observational comedy who, with little fuss or hoopla, simply gets on with the task of…