Laughing Labia
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2014 … It’s a terrible name for a club, with a terrible catchline to match: ‘Let the ladies entertain you!’ But poor marketing hasn’t stopped monthly London night…
2014 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 10 February 2014
Eden Rivers: Stay At Home Dad
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2014 … There’s not too much to Eden Rivers’s loose and laid-back collection of parenting anecdotes, despite being pleasingly told.
Thu 06 February 2014
Rubberbandits: Continental Fistfight
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Soho Theatre
06/02/2014 … With their tracky bottoms and feckless attitude, Irish musical reprobates the Rubberbandits could have come from Limerick’s equivalent of Benefits Street.
Sat 01 February 2014
Chris Ramsey: The Most Dangerous Man On Saturday Morning Television
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London
01/02/2014 … The idea that Chris Ramsey could be the most dangerous man anywhere is patently laughable.
Fri 31 January 2014
Guilt & Shame: Addicted To Everything
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Thearte
31/01/2014 … Your enjoyment of Guilt and Shame’s boisterously raucous show will depend entirely on your reaction to one of their set pieces, in which they drag a guy off the…
Wed 29 January 2014
Kurt Braunohler: Here's Where It Gets Weird...
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Thearte, London
29/01/2014 … America’s Kurt Braunohler has something of a reputation for absurdist comedy which is not entirely ill-deserved given his oddball collaborations with Kristen Schaal…
Mon 27 January 2014
Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: Full Frontal Nerdity
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London
27/01/2014 … Take the good aspects of Top Gear – the passion, the camaraderie and the entertaining three-way joshing – and splice it into the DNA of the Royal Institution’s…
NATY 2014 final
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London
27/01/2014 … With its remit to seek out variety acts as well as the more traditional stand-ups, the NATYs tends to produce a final that’s as changeable in quality as it is…