Best Boy
15/05/2016 … Male double act Best Boy have a handful of excellent ‘tentpole’ sketches – most notably an enjoyably anarchic finale – but they prop up some pretty flimsy…
2016 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 15 May 2016
Dave Bailey: Beige Against The Machine
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
15/05/2016 … True to the title, Dave Bailey spends a portion of his set berating those people with limited drive and conformist taste, calling them ‘beige people’.
Fri 13 May 2016
Mum
13/05/2016 … Mum, the new sitcom from Him & Her writer Stefan Golaszewski, is a quietly lovely piece of work: funny, poignant and sharply observed – and with an…
Giacinto Palmieri: Nietzsche, Women And I
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
13/05/2016 … At one point in this show, Giacinto Palmieri reminds us of the old adage that comedy equals tragedy plus time.
Peter Antoniou: Happy Medium
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
13/05/2016 … After a booming Vegas-style voiceover, comedy mindreader (or ‘comedium’) Peter Antoniou warms us up with some call-and-response hollers, pitching one…
Thu 12 May 2016
Amused Moose Laugh Off 2016
Gig review by Paul Fleckney at The Hippodrome, London
12/05/2016 … The Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square was the venue for this year’s Amused Moose Laugh Off final – previously won by Jack Whitehall, Sarah Millican,…
Alice Marshall: Vicious
Brighton Fringe review by Steve Bennett
12/05/2016 … The cavalcade of caricatures in Alice Marshall’s debut showcase have a nastier edge than most, so there can be no accusations of misrepresentation when it comes…
Wed 11 May 2016
© BBC/House of Tomorrow Cunk On Shakespeare
11/05/2016 … So this is the dumbed-down BBC; a presenter not only ill-versed in the subject she’s supposed to be educating us about, but proud of the fact.