Kai Humphries at the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year final 2009
09/06/2009 … Proud Geordie Kai Humphries started his short set on wobbly ground, with all-too familiar gags about the glib morale-booster ‘whatever doesn’t kill you only…
2009 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 09 June 2009
Jason Patterson at the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year final 2009
09/06/2009 … Delivery is Jason Patterson’s strong suit, effortlessly drawing the audience in with his opening anecdote – only to blemish it with a tired pull-back-and-reveal…
Mike O'Donovan at the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year final 2009
09/06/2009 … Mike O'Donovan had a warmth to his unhurried delivery, but he took far too long to set up such idea as lazy people being transported on airport travellators or the…
Tony Dunn at the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year final 2009
09/06/2009 … Gloomy Tony Dunn has dark material and measured Scottish accent that inevitably invites comparisons with Frankie Boyle, in which he can only come out the worse.
Sam Gore at the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year final 2009
09/06/2009 … This acerbic Leeds student is fast filling up his trophy cabinet, having scooped the Hull Comedian Of The Year and the Beat The Frog World Series titles last year,…
Mon 08 June 2009
Putting the wit into Twitter?
08/06/2009 … Well, it was certainly a headline-grabbing idea, if not necessarily a brilliant one: the first comedy club held over Twitter.
Thu 04 June 2009
Eleanor Tiernan At Cat Laughs 2009
04/06/2009 … There’s something forcefully affected about Eleanor Tiernan’s way of breathlessly barking her material at the audience, which means it lacks the fluidity and…
John Lynn At Cat Laughs 2009
04/06/2009 … He may have a haircut straight out of a Seventies wedding photo, but John Lynn has a lot of old-fashioned Irish charm, too.