Tommy Tiernan: Stray Sod
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Thearte
23/01/2014 … Tommy Tiernan embodies – nay, celebrates – a certain type of wayward Irish spirit of tall tales, bar-room philosophising and playful disobedience.
2014 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 23 January 2014
Wed 22 January 2014
Punt & Dennis: Ploughing On Regardless
Gig review by Steve Bennett at The Swan, High Wycombe
22/01/2014 … There’s a section in this show in which Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt talk about the curiously specific warnings on films – ‘contains moderate threat’, that…
Thu 16 January 2014
Frank Skinner: Man In A Suit
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Soho Theatre
16/01/2014 … ‘There was a time when my act was more or less exclusively filth,’ says Frank Skinner as he makes his stand-up comeback after six years away.
Casual Violence Presents: House Of Nostril
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Soho Theatre
16/01/2014 … Casual Violence have created an effective gothic landscape for their narrative sketch show, House Of Nostril, so even if the surreal, dark comedy is often heavy-handed,…
Sun 12 January 2014
Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show 2014
Gig review by Steve Bennett at De Montfort Hall, Leicester
12/01/2014 … Securing Jasper Carrott to host Leicester’s comedy festival preview show was something of coup.
Fri 10 January 2014
Beth Vyse: Going Dark!
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Etcetera Theatre, London
10/01/2014 … Beth Vyse is a bold performer, bringing flair and commitment to every outrageously surreal scene dredged up from the stranger, ill-lit corners of her mind.
Wed 01 January 2014
Anne Edmonds: It's Eddo
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
01/01/2014 … More usually a character performer, Anne Edmonds this year ventures into more traditional stand-up territory – and although her show is a definite slow-burner,…
Amos Gill: You've Changed
01/01/2014 … Amos Gill has all the ingredients to be a strong comic, but somehow he’s cooked them up to being a light, forgettable snack rather than a satisfying cordon blu…