© Christa Holka MICF: Zoë Coombs Marr The Splash Zone
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
02/04/2025 … Zoë Coombs Marr has one word for crowdwork: ‘Yuk.
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Wed 02 April 2025
© Christa Holka Mon 31 March 2025
Glasgow International Comedy Festival Gala 2025
Review of the big closing-day event by Jay Richardson
31/03/2025 … It’s a measure perhaps, of the confidence and rude health of Scottish comedy right now, that this showpiece event at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival…
Sat 29 March 2025
© Ellis O Brien Jenny Eclair: Jokes, Jokes Jokes
Review of comedian's show inspired by her memoirs
29/03/2025 … Just before the interval a flash of insecurity crosses Jenny Eclair’s mind.
Fri 28 March 2025
The Iceman: The Final Block
Alternative comedy pioneer coaxed out of retirement
28/03/2025 … The Iceman is surely the act most widely cited to illustrated the weird and wonderful state of the fertile post-punk alternative cabaret circuit which birthed the…
Thu 27 March 2025
Time Travel Is Dangerous
Review of an 'ambitious, charming oddity' of a sci-fi comedy film
27/03/2025 … Comedy and science fiction are notoriously difficult genres to combine.
Wed 26 March 2025
© John Stead Teenage Cancer Trust Night Of Comedy 2025
Review of the Royal Albert Hall fundraiser
26/03/2025 … Massive charity gigs are there for the taking for lesser-known acts.
Tue 25 March 2025
The Change, series two
Review of the first two episodes of Bridget Christie's retuning comedy
25/03/2025 … Don’t watch the second series of Bridget Christie’s The Change without watching the first – and not just because you’ll be missing out on…
Mon 24 March 2025
© Guy Bell Plied and Prejudice
Review of a raucous new take on the Jane Austen classic
24/03/2025 … Shit-Faced Shakespeare has long desecrated/improved the Bard’s classics by having one of their cast act drunk… and now it’s Jane Austen’s…