Dave Gorman: Powerpoint To The People
Review of his major new stand-up toup
17/10/2022 … ‘I like to play the long game,’ Dave Gorman says during his latest show which is, indeed, hallmarked by elaborate callbacks to ideas you’d almost…
2022 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 17 October 2022
Jon Richardson: The Knitwit
Review of the comic's current stand-up tour
17/10/2022 … It has been more than three years since The Knitwit was announced, so Jon Richardson admires the admin skills of anyone who has still made it to the right theatre…
Tue 11 October 2022
Harry Hill: Pedigree Fun
11/10/2022 … Harry Hill closes Pedigree Fun with a uniquely peculiar rendition of My Way that sets him apart from the showbiz hackery of countless cover versions, confirming…
Fri 07 October 2022
Kevin Bridges: The Overdue Catch-Up
Review of the comedian's touring show in Brighton
07/10/2022 … Underpinning Kevin Bridges’ latest stand-up show are concerns about mental health and the toxicity of social media – big, contemporary issues in the…
Jen Brister: The Optimist
Review of the comedian's tour show in Glasgow
07/10/2022 … If Jen Brister’s show title is laced with the thickest of irony, then no one told the amorous couple in her front row last night – although it only exacerbated…
Wed 05 October 2022
Louis CK at Wembley Arena
05/10/2022 … The last time Louis CK tried to play the UK in 2019, his gigs got pulled almost as soon as they were announced, so intense was the backlash to the…
Tue 04 October 2022
© C4 I Hate You
Review of Robert Popper's new Channel 4 comedy
04/10/2022 … Robert Popper has been writing comedy a long time, peaking, so far, with Friday Night Dinner, the unlikely adventures of two twentysomething idiot brothers,…
Mon 03 October 2022
© Steve Ullathorne Funny Women final 2022
Review of this year's female comedy showcase
03/10/2022 … It was a secret vote from industry judges, but Lorna Rose Treen’s victory in this year’s Funny Women final must surely have been a landslide.