Bumps
21/02/2020 … Comedies these days are as much about the narrative and the drama than the laughs – if not sometimes more so.
2020 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 21 February 2020
Intelligence
Preview of Sky's new Nick Mohammed and David Schwimmer comedy
21/02/2020 … The wait for TV to use Nick Mohammed to his full comic potential is finally over, thanks to Sky One’s new sitcom, Intelligence.
Greed
Movie review by Jay Richardson
21/02/2020 … Steve Coogan's collaborations with writer-director Michael Winterbottom tend to focus on brash, self-made men who forge a glamorous myth of themselves.
Tue 18 February 2020
© Johan Persson Upstart Crow in the West End
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Gielgud Theatre
18/02/2020 … With the Only Fools musical and now Upstart Crow, are sitcoms slowly taking over London’s West End? But while Ben Elton’s Shakespearean comedy…
Mon 17 February 2020
Inside No 9: Love's Great Adventure
17/02/2020 … Every episode of Inside No.
© BBC This Country series 3
17/02/2020 … ‘Since you were last here, we’ve had some very sad news,’ says Rev Francis Seaton at the very start of This Country’s third series.
Olga Koch: If/Then
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre, London
17/02/2020 … Arbitrary gender roles are at the heart of Olga Koch’s sophomore show.
Oddball
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Vault Festival, London
17/02/2020 … With Oddball, Francesca Forristal takes on the topic of eating disorders with the intention of ‘exploring thought processes which don’t always make sense…