© BBC / King Bert Luisa Omielan's Politics For Bitches
22/10/2018 … Commissioning Luisa Omielan to address politics makes perfect sense for the BBC’s public-service remit.
2018 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 22 October 2018
© BBC / King Bert Sat 06 October 2018
Comedy Central Live
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Hoglands Park, Southampton
06/10/2018 … Comedy Central might have had trouble attracting punters to its first live festival – surely not helped by the fact it would have initially cost £90…
Fri 05 October 2018
Jo Koy: Break The Mold
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Leicester Square Theatre, London
05/10/2018 … Two-and-a-half stars might seem an ungenerous rating for a comedian who made his audience laugh possibly harder than I’ve ever heard, and at an intensity that…
Johnny English Strikes Again
05/10/2018 … The premise of Rowan Atkinson’s third Johnny English film – a good seven years after the last – is that our titular secret agent is an analogue…
Wed 03 October 2018
Nish Kumar: It's in Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre, London
03/10/2018 … Nish Kumar is angry; but then he’s got a lot to be angry about, from the socio-political dirty bombs of Brexit and Trump, to his comedy heroes letting him…
Mon 01 October 2018
Dave Gorman: With Great PowerPoint Comes Great ResponsibilityPoint
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Brighton Dome
01/10/2018 … Long-running TV series often end in a feature-length special, so Dave Gorman’s latest tour could well be seen as an elongated swansong for Modern Life Is Goodish,…