Alan Carr: Yap, Yap, Yap
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…
2015 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 30 March 2015
Sun 29 March 2015
America Stands Up
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…
Fri 27 March 2015
Buttery Brown Monk
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…
Thu 26 March 2015
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian TV review: Inside No 9
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…
Mon 23 March 2015
Mel Brooks Live In London
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…
Sun 22 March 2015
The Friday Night Experience
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…
Fri 20 March 2015
Death Of A Comedian
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.
Thu 19 March 2015
CHUNKS Of The Year 2015
Gig review by Jay Richardson at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
19/03/2015 … Loosely set up like a talent show for the maladjusted and socially maligned, with each act competing to win the Golden Pineapple trophy, this anarchic chunder through…