Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Glasgow Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
31/03/2015 … There's a striking bit in Elaine Malcolmson's hour where the Northern Irish comic takes herself out of the story she's telling about death and remembrance, to reflect…
Gig review by Steve Bennett at G Live, Guildford
30/03/2015 … There’s an old saying, attributed to 1930s American funnyman Ed Wynn, differentiating innate wit from learned techniques: ‘A comic says funny things; a comedian…
Glasgow Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
29/03/2015 … Always the most compelling entry in the programme for punters hoping to see something new, and the only real justification for 'international' in the Glasgow International…
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Square Theatre
27/03/2015 … The first thing to say about Buttery Brown Monk is that that their name – like the similarly theological Cardinal Burns’s – comes from their surnames, not…
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian 26/03/2015 … With its wordless opening, it initially looks as if the second series of Inside No 9 is going to repeat the most audacious episode of the first, and create a near-silent…
Gig review by Darren Richman at the Prince Of Wales Theatre
23/03/2015 … Mel Brooks is the history of American Jewish humour in human form – and in his eagerly awaited London stage debut at the ripe old age of 88, he entertained…
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Invisible Dot, London
22/03/2015 … The Friday Night Experience, a new format being trialled by new-wave London producers The Invisible Dot, is an engagingly slapdash mix of gameshow, sketch performance…
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
20/03/2015 … There’s an awful lot of bland, watery observational stand-up in this show… but for once, that’s not a criticism.
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