Des Bishop: My Dad Was Nearly James Bond
16/08/2010 … In recent years there’s been a fashion for misery memoirs about impoverished childhood blighted by neglect, abuse and absentee parents.
2010 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 16 August 2010
Sun 15 August 2010
Jennifer Coolidge: Yours For The Night
15/08/2010 … From 1997 to 1999, I worked for a newspaper called the Surrey Herald.
Andy Linden: I Kid You Not
15/08/2010 … With his compellingly growly voice, distinctively sinister look and perfectly judged performance, Andy Linden should pick up a lot more acting work on the back of…
Brothers Streep
15/08/2010 … The neatly turned-out Brothers Streep have come all the way from Cape Town… but haven’t brought all that much with them.
Bo Burnham: Words, Words, Words
15/08/2010 … Don’t they grow up fast these days? It seems like only yesterday that Bo Burnham was the awkward, geeky fresh-faced teenager distributing the comic songs he made…
H Anthony Hildebrand: Why Is A Lettuce?
15/08/2010 … What a strange brew this expat Australian serves up: an infusion of painful ‘dad gags’, inventive one-liners, surreal stories and beat-backed poetry.
Allnutt and Simpson:Two Wise Men
15/08/2010 … Sketch comedy often treads a well-worn path with familiar scenarios trotted out under various new guises.
Matt Green: Bleeding Funny
15/08/2010 … What the hell is wrong with Matt Green? Nothing, is the answer; he's a confident and likable stand-up offering some perfectly entertaining skits on iPhones, childhood…