Adam Hills: Inflatable
01/01/2009 … An Adam Hills show is always a festival highlight, and Inflatable might just be his best yet, with real weight, wit and purpose behind his contagious positivity.
2009 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 01 January 2009
Bedroom Philosopher: Songs From The 86 Tram
01/01/2009 … We’ve previously called the quirkily tweedy Bedroom Philosopher ‘the Jarvis Cocker of stand-up’; and you can almost certainly add elements of The Kinks’…
Ali McGregor's Late-Nite Variety-Nite Night
01/01/2009 … Ali McGregor’s variety show is pitched as an evening of elegant decadence, as personified by the sultry top-hat-wearing chanteuse herself.
Felicity Ward's Ugly As A Child Variety Show
01/01/2009 … There’s something a bit wrong about Felicity Ward.
David Quirk: Feeling Steve Breathe
01/01/2009 … The laconic David Quirk is attempting something a little different with the architecture of stand-up, replacing the accepted tricks of the genre with a new batch…
Sammy J: 1999
01/01/2009 … The sound you’re most likely to hear from the audience of the new show from talented musical comedian Sammy J isn’t laughter, but a sympathetic ‘aaah’.
Mario Joyner
01/01/2009 … Mario Joyner supported Chris Rock on his last tour, but any expectations of similarly incisive social commentary are quickly dispelled when he opens his late-night…
Ricky Gervais: Science
01/01/2009 … Early preview show: Bloomsbury Theatre, London, April 20, 2009Ricky Gervais is dabbling in science, and tonight we are his guinea pigs.