Debra DiGiovanni
30/03/2011 … Visiting Canadian comic Debra DiGiovanni blows through a sparsely populated Stand on an engagingly prickly attitude and a sharp sense of comedic rhythm, even though…
2011 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 30 March 2011
Mon 28 March 2011
Nick Revell: Revell Yell
28/03/2011 … Nick Revell’s show is nothing if not wide-ranging; a rare mix of political polemic, mass-appeal observational comedy, personal anecdotes, and high-falutin name-dropping…
Fri 25 March 2011
Stand Up Drink Up
25/03/2011 … ‘The more you drink, the funnier we are,’ goes the familiar compere’s maxim, so what better union of booze and stand-up than a comedy pub crawl? The idea is…
Thu 24 March 2011
Boothby Graffoe at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
24/03/2011 … Many of the headliners of the Glasgow Comedy Festival are of a particularly spiky sort: Jerry Sadowitz, Frankie Boyle, Doug Stanhope… By way of contrast, Boothby…
Wed 23 March 2011
Doug Stanhope at Glasgow Comedy Festival
23/03/2011 … Doug Stanhope fears someone has stolen his act since he was last in Britain.
Tue 22 March 2011
Stand Up For Palestine
22/03/2011 … Given that Frankie Boyle’s threatened to give up stand-up imminently, the prospect of his only gig this year – and on home turf, too – easily filled The King’s…
Teenage Cancer Trust benefit 2011
22/03/2011 … Comic Relief might be the most symbolic melding of laughter and charity, but it’s far from the only comedy fundraiser in the calendar.
Mon 21 March 2011
Glasgow Comedy Festival: Maureen Langan
21/03/2011 … The Glasgow comedy festival earns its ‘international’ tag with a generous smattering of genuine intercontinental visitors in shows such as this intimate back-of-a-pub…