The Producers
Review by Steve Bennett at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
18/03/2015 … You can't escape Mel Brooks at the moment: his classic 2,000-Year-Old man sketches are being revived in London, he's about to make his West End stage debut at the…
2015 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 18 March 2015
Mon 16 March 2015
Andrew Learmonth: All the People I've Ever Loved Will Die
Gig review by Jay Richardson at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
16/03/2015 … After expressing surprise at how many people have turned up, Andrew Learmonth claims he’s bad at starting a show, his shambling self-deprecation peaking with…
Sun 15 March 2015
Stu Who? Beyond A Joke
Gig review by Jay Richardson at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
15/03/2015 … Never seemingly growing older, yet doing so disgracefully all the same, veteran act Stu Who? remains a vital presence on the Scottish stand-up circuit.
Thu 12 March 2015
© Blake Ezra Photography The 2,000 Year Old Man
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at JW3, London
12/03/2015 … The 2,000-year-old man would actually be 2,054 now – given the adjustment for how long it’s been since Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner first performed the now-classic…
Sat 07 March 2015
TV review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
07/03/2015 … A few minutes into Tina Fey’s new sitcom, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and you can perhaps understand why NBC passed on the project from their biggest comedy star.
Fri 06 March 2015
Larry David's Fish In The Dark
New York threatre review by Darren Richman
06/03/2015 … Bad Jews is a play currently wowing critics in London but it is a title that could just as easily apply to Larry David’s Broadway debut.
Mon 02 March 2015
Pompidou
02/03/2015 … Maybe Matt Lucas can take solace from the fact no one liked Paris’s now iconic Pompidou Centre when it first opened.
Fri 27 February 2015
Michael Redmond, Aidan Strangeman and Colin Murphy
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Queen's Comedy Club
27/02/2015 … Michael Redmond has a face that looks like it’s been left out in the rain too long, with his eyes, jowls and particularly moustache smudging droopily downwards…