Bob Downe: 20 Golden Greats
14/08/2011 … This was an unexpected pleasure! I was expecting to sneer my way through this, but you’d have to be a committed miseryguts not to succumb to cheesy crooner…
2011 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 14 August 2011
Mick Ferry: Sod It!
14/08/2011 … It might have already felt, in recent days, as if the apocalypse was coming but Mick Ferry reminds us that we should be putting the actual date in our diaries as…
Puppetry Of The Penis: 3D
14/08/2011 … Puppetry of the Penis have a long tradition (don't excuse the pun) at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sat 13 August 2011
The Peacock And Gamble Emergency Broadcast
13/08/2011 … The premise of Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble’s show – loose as it is – is that this is the broadcast that comes on air when another show doesn’t go as planned.
Arthur Smith's Pissed-Up Chat Show
13/08/2011 … Don’t you hate it when gigs are disrupted by a mouthy drunk at the bar, not knowing his own volume or aware of people around him.
Phill Jupitus: Stand Down
13/08/2011 … Making his return to stand-up after a decade away, Phill Jupitus treads carefully, with an hour of engagingly-written comedy that clings closely to familiar ideas.
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut
13/08/2011 … Not even the Marx Brothers could parody Casablanca successfully, so the Tron Theatre Company have set themselves a tough task with this theatrical homage.
Steve Gribbin: Laugh At First Sight
13/08/2011 … There are riots on the streets, the phone-hacking scandal taints the media, police and politicians, and cuts are beginning to bite as the Western world remains in…