Martin Coyote – Original Review
26/01/2009 … As a compere, the hugely experienced Martin Coyote accesses his databanks of material with the speed of a Google search, effortlessly using any audience cue as a…
2009 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 26 January 2009
Paul Tonkinson – Original Review
26/01/2009 … Well-established, but largely under-rated, circuit stalwart Paul Tonkinson is a master at working a crowd.
Tue 13 January 2009
Tony Cowards – Original Review
13/01/2009 … Competent is probably the best way to describe Tony Cowards, for all the good and bad that middle-of-the-road adjective implies.
Thu 01 January 2009
Invention Of Lying
01/01/2009 … Ricky Gervais has always teased us with his projected degree of self-awareness, daring us to judge to what extent he’s simply a cheeky chancer from Reading who’s…
Bunny And The Bull
01/01/2009 … The first thing to note about Bunny And The Bull, the cinematic debut of Mighty Boosh director Paul King, is that it’s not Mighty Boosh: The Movie.
Spinal Tap: Back From The Dead
01/01/2009 … I’ve now seen every gig in Spinal Tap’s 25th anniversary World Tour – although they did, admittedly, make it easy by playing just one show, Glastonbury warm-up…
Film With Me In It
01/01/2009 … This deliciously dark farce, set in a grimy Dublin flat, lies somewhere between Shallow Grave and Withnail And I.
Sandra Bernhard: Without You I'm Nothing 2009
01/01/2009 … Sandra Bernhard is certainly defiant.