John Hastings: Integrity
19/08/2016 … John Hastings spins a yarn about an incident-packed trip back to Canada, which is jolly enough, but never quite hooks the audience enough to take it to a new, more…
2016 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 19 August 2016
Thu 18 August 2016
Luke Kempner: Judi Dench Broke My Heart
18/08/2016 … There’s a fair amount of snobbery around impressions in comedy; they’re seen as gimmicky and old-fashioned.
Sofie Hagen: Shimmer Shatter
18/08/2016 … Sofie Hagen saves all her goodies until the end… you don’t really know where all her anecdotes are leading until the coda after the bucket speech asking for…
Jiggle & Hyde Present: Sketchy Mother Pluckers
18/08/2016 … A mini-conference suite is a hard place to crack a smile, but those who made it to the eighth floor of the Jurys Inn hotel were rewarded with an entertaining hour…
Emma Sidi: Telenovela
18/08/2016 … Emma Sidi has worked out that, to British audiences at least, speaking in Spanish is funny.
Mark Silcox: Helping Aamer
18/08/2016 … Anti-comedian Mark Silcox performed one of my least favourite shows of last year’s Fringe, his wilfully unfunny talk on electrochemiluminescence and tediously…
Susan Calman: The Calman Before The Storm
18/08/2016 … Susan Calman insists you’ve got the wrong impression of her.