© Stuart Hogben Dara O Briain at Latitude 2017
15/07/2017 … You need a certain confidence to be headlining Latitude and bring out a sheaf of notes in front of 2,000 people, including an unforgiving comedy critic.
2017 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sat 15 July 2017
© Stuart Hogben Fri 14 July 2017
© Stuart Hogben Chris Ramsey at Latitude 2017
14/07/2017 … The pram in the hall is said to spell the death of creativity, but for comedians a new baby can easily be a rich vein of new material, just as long as they take…
© Stuart Hogben Seann Walsh at Latitude 2017
14/07/2017 … Seann Walsh, the king of exasperated observation comedy, isn’t sure the middle-class Latitude crowd are his kind of people.
Thu 13 July 2017
Daniel Kitson: Something Other Than Everything
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Roundhouse, London
13/07/2017 … Something Other Than Everything has been billed – with typical, if valid, immodesty – as Daniel Kitson’s latest reinvention of the stand-up form.
Sat 08 July 2017
The Penny Dreadfuls: Le Carré On Spying
08/07/2017 … They’ve previously taken on everything from to Homer to Hereward the Wake.
Fri 07 July 2017
Mitch Benn, Paul Zenon, Paul Foot and more
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Henley Festival
07/07/2017 … Ah, the festival season: thousands of young people wasted on cheap lager or dubious drugs getting caked in mud in some remote, unhygienic field.
Sun 02 July 2017
© Elizabeth Zeschin Chubby Funny
02/07/2017 … The presence of Withnail And I looms large over Chubby Funny, a new comedy movie about two struggling actors adrift in London.
Fri 30 June 2017
Judith Lucy and Denise Scott: Disappointments
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Soho Theatre, London
30/06/2017 … Most comedians rally their audience with something like: ‘Who’s been drinking tonight?’ Denise Scott seeks solidarity by asking: ‘Who here’s…