Sarah Campbell – Original Review
24/07/2008 … Sarah Campbell talks about being middle-class and a lesbian, brought up so she has to ask the audience: ‘I’m gay, does anybody mind about that?’ Not only do…
2008 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 24 July 2008
Girl & Dean – Original Review
24/07/2008 … Girl & Dean are an almost defiantly old-school sketch double-act, starting with a skit that could almost have appeared in any undistinguished university revue of…
© Steve Ullathorne Pippa Evans – Original Review
24/07/2008 … Character comic Pippa Evans most often performs as scarily intense singer-songwriter Loretta Maine.
© Idil Sukan/Draw HQ Katherine Ryan – Original Review
24/07/2008 … The brash, almost shrill, Katherine Ryan may be from Canada, but owes her perky persona to West Coast America.
Grainne Maguire – Original Review
24/07/2008 … Relative newcomer Grainne Maguire hails from Navan, the Irish town that has already produced Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran – but she’s her work cut out to reach…
Sat 19 July 2008
Miriam Elia – Original Review
19/07/2008 … Newbie Miriam Elia is hotly tipped as a talent to watch – and not without good reason, even if her formative gigs can be a hit-and-miss affair.
Stephen Merchant – Original Review
19/07/2008 … Though famous – and wealthy – for The Office and Extras, Stephen Merchant has quietly been honing a stand-up set of his own, making increasingly frequent appearances…
Wed 16 July 2008
Britcom 2008
16/07/2008 … The North American stereotype of the British man is someone fey, camp, intelligent but slightly weird and crippled by social awkwardness.