Jonathan Pie: The Fake News Tour
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hexagon, Reading
17/10/2019 … Midway through a typically impassioned rant against ‘woke’ comedy, spoof news reporter Jonathan Pie rages: ‘Sometimes you want to have a laugh…
2019 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 17 October 2019
Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Museum Of Comedy, London
17/10/2019 … Nick Elleray tells us that an inner rage burns inside him.
Tue 15 October 2019
Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy
15/10/2019 … Despite a small handful of high-profile exceptions, black and Asian characters tend to be under-represented in TV comedy.
Mon 14 October 2019
© Andrew Perry Baby Reindeer at the Bush Theatre, London
Review of Richard Gadd's show about stalking
14/10/2019 … How much torment can one man bear? Richard Gadd previously excoriated his soul with the grim tale of how he was groomed and sexually abused as a young man.
Fri 11 October 2019
The Day Shall Come
11/10/2019 … How to effectively satirise a world in which Donald Trump is President vexes some of the greatest minds of the artform.
Frank Skinner: Showbiz
Tour review by Steve Bennett at G Live, Guildford
11/10/2019 … He was the face of the lad comics who dominated the 1990s, talking football on the telly and sex, in graphic detail, on stage.
Wed 09 October 2019
Rudi Lickwood’s Five Minutes To Shine
New act final review by Steve Bennett
09/10/2019 … New act finals can be stressful enough for the inexperienced comedian at the best of time, but Rudi Lickwood’s Five Minutes To Shine added an extra –…
Frisky & Mannish: Pop Lab
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Y Theatre, Leicester
09/10/2019 … It is a quarter-filled theatre in Leicester on a school night, but Frisky and Mannish are performing like it’s a sold-out London Palladium.