Shappi Khorsandi at the Leicester Comedy Festival preview show
17/01/2010 … Shappi Khorsandi is smart, vivacious, innately funny and eminently likeable – tipped only this week as a rising star of the BBC as it seeks to promote more entertainers…
2010 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 17 January 2010
Patrick Monahan at the Leicester Comedy Festival preview show
17/01/2010 … Irish-Iranian Patrick Monahan is all generous bonhomie, making the audience feel warm and toasty as he liberally spreads the goodwill like a professional meeter…
Angelos Epithemiou at the Leicester Comedy Festival preview show
17/01/2010 … Though I’ve since revised my view, the first time I saw the morosely deadpan Angelos Epithemiou, I wasn’t convinced by his tortured reluctance, drawn-out pauses…
Zoe Lyons at the Just For Laughs London showcase
17/01/2010 … Zoe Lyons has pitch-perfect delivery with all the technical skills, cheery grumpiness and straight-to-the-point premises that have served generations of Northern…
Pat Burtscher at the Just For Laughs London showcase
17/01/2010 … Pat Burtscher struggled to fully engage the audience.
Carl Donnelly at the Just For Laughs London showcase
17/01/2010 … Low-key Carl Donnelly proved an entertaining turn with his quirky stories.
Jarred Christmas at the Just For Laughs London showcase
17/01/2010 … Jarred Christmas played a blinder tonight, unafraid to burst out of the wings and immediately start playing with the audience in rather the same way a cat may play…
Fri 15 January 2010
Jihad! The Musical
15/01/2010 … The latest in the increasingly crowded genre of Subject:The Musical! began life at the Edinburgh Fringe two years ago, when it attracted the predictable ‘Fury…