Gerry Carroll: When I Was Alive
21/06/2021 … The inventive idiots at the cult Alternative Comedy Memorial Society night have a permitted heckle: ‘A failure - but a noble one.
2021 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 21 June 2021
Thu 17 June 2021
© BBC Laugh Lessons
Our critical guide to all 20 of BBC Three's new comedy shorts
17/06/2021 … BBC Three has today launched a series of 20 shorts under the Laugh Lessons banner, showcasing new and diverse comedy talent, put together from production houses…
Mon 14 June 2021
© BBC Inside No 9: Last Night Of The Proms
14/06/2021 … This series of Inside No 9 ends with probably its weakest link, even though it’s always fascinating to see what Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith…
Sun 13 June 2021
© BBC Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator
13/06/2021 … To research this Radio 4 essay about the role of the unreliable narrator, Stewart Lee spent almost three weeks with the Inrravat people of northern Canada, who believe…
Tue 08 June 2021
© Netflix Bo Burnham: Inside
Netflix special reviewed by Steve Bennett
08/06/2021 … Bo Burnham became famous on YouTube, sitting alone in his teenage bedroom writing comedy songs for his audience down the internet.
Mon 07 June 2021
© BBC Inside No 9: How Do You Plead?
07/06/2021 … Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton - or rather their director Guillem Morales - have given new meaning to dark comedy in this episode of Inside No 9, with its…
Fella: Give Me Some Credit
07/06/2021 … Fella is a chaotic, under-rehearsed stand-up with the comic sensibilities of a 13-year-old boy, her material full of gags about knobs and fannies and pubic hair…
Pete Wells Does Not Exist
07/06/2021 … It has been a while since anyone was consistently on stage, so we can perhaps forgive some lack of fluidity, but Pete Wells’ take on big tech is, to use the…