Headliners 2016
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
31/03/2016 … Most of the comedians at Headliners, the annual showcase of North American stand-up, complained about a quiet audience and the way their liberal sensibilities bristled…
2016 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 31 March 2016
Frank Woodley: Extra Ordinary
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
31/03/2016 … Frank Woodley is one of the very few comedians at this year’s Melbourne comedy festival to have been on stage at the first ever event, 30 years ago.
Lessons With Luis
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
31/03/2016 … Guileless and awkward in his daggy knitwear, Luis Brown makes for an endearingly optimistic naif: a home-grown Aussie version of Andy Kaufman’s Foreign Man taking…
Fri 25 March 2016
Andrew Maxwell's Late Agenda
25/03/2016 … Social media is changing the way topical comedy programmes are made.
Wed 23 March 2016
Scot Squad: Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson: Tomorrow’s Force Today
Glasgow comedy festival review by Jay Richardson
23/03/2016 … Since Scotland’s police force unified in 2013, the negative headlines surrounding former chief constable Stephen House’s brief tenure have been an unquestioned…
Sun 20 March 2016
Grado Live: It's Masel'
Glasgow comedy festival review by Jay Richardson
20/03/2016 … This was only Grado’s second stand-up gig, but as you might expect from a professional wrestler, he really knows how to work a crowd.
Fri 18 March 2016
Canned Laughter
Glasgow comedy festival review by Jay Richardson
18/03/2016 … Seventies showbusiness has had a bad press recently, to put it mildly.
Thu 17 March 2016
© BBC/Comedy Unit Robert Florence & Iain Connell: Uncles
Gig review by Jay Richardson at the Glasgow comedy festival
17/03/2016 … Almost nothing was revealed in advance about this new show from Burnistoun creators Robert Florence and Iain Connell, yet Uncles greatly surpasses the expectations…