© BBC Famalam Season 3
23/08/2020 … It’s a shame the new series of Famalam has run into a racism storm on its release, as the row over offensive Jamaican stereotypes certainly doesn’t reflect…
2020 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 23 August 2020
© BBC Fri 21 August 2020
Punting Comedy
Gig review by Steve Bennett on the River Cherwell, Oxford
21/08/2020 … Given the restrictions on gathering indoors, almost every comedy gig in these times has an unusual twist: it’s a drive-in, or in a stately home… or…
Mon 17 August 2020
© Claire Haigh Help Save Live Comedy
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Clapham Grand, London
17/08/2020 … The Clapham Grand has hosted some sweaty rock gigs and raucous parties in its day - so to see it as a socially distanced comedy venue, a few tables sparsely scattered…
Fri 14 August 2020
So You Think You're Funny? Best Bits
14/08/2020 … It’s always fun watching before-they-were-famous clips of successful comedians to compare and contrast their early instincts with the gig-honed personas which…
Thu 13 August 2020
© BBC Mandy
13/08/2020 … She’s made her name on TV as Philomena Cunk and as Liz in Motherland, saying the words of some very talented writers.
Thu 06 August 2020
© BBC Semi-Detached with Lee Mack
06/08/2020 … The gimmick of Lee Mack’s new sitcom is that all the action happens in real time – though whether audiences would appreciate, or even notice, the restriction…
Squeamish About...
06/08/2020 … In one of the few TV programmes that can be made in isolation, Matt Berry provides his peculiarly stressed voiceover to a patchwork of unrelated archive clips.
Fri 24 July 2020
© BBC Frankie Boyle: Excited For You To See And Hate This
24/07/2020 … Of all the sentiments that follow the trite contemporary cliché ‘now, more than ever…’, the most unarguable is probably that we all need…