© BBC Black Ops
Review of BBC One's new comedy-thriller
05/05/2023 … The BBC looks as if it has an instant hit on its hand with Black Ops.
2023 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Fri 05 May 2023
© BBC Thu 04 May 2023
© BBC Inside No 9: Paraskevidekatriaphobia
Spoiler-free review of tonight's episode
04/05/2023 … Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton can be forgiven for a little bit of showing off in titling their latest Inside No 9 Paraskevidekatriaphobia – the fear…
Mon 01 May 2023
© C4 The Windsors Coronation Special
Review of last night's Channel 4 show
01/05/2023 … In contrast to Frankie Boyle’s no-punches-pulled Farewell To The Monarchy, which followed on Channel 4 last night, The Windsors Coronation Special…
© Channel 4 Frankie Boyle’s Farewell To The Monarchy
Review of last night's Channel 4 programme
01/05/2023 … Frankie Boyle’s Farewell To The Monarchy is a welcome – and bitterly tart – antidote to the media’s wall-to-wall forelock-tugging Coronation…
Thu 27 April 2023
© BBC/James Stack Inside No 9: Mother's Ruin
Review of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's latest
27/04/2023 … In an interview to promote the return of Inside No 9, Reece Shearsmith teased that the new series was sometimes ‘quite gory… something that we haven’t…
Mon 24 April 2023
The Oldest Comedy Club In Britain
New film about Downstair's At The King's Head
24/04/2023 … Whenever the history of the UK’s live comedy is written, the Comedy Store rightly takes centre stage as the venue which first opened its doors to alternative…
Fri 21 April 2023
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023
All 57 reviews from this year's event
21/04/2023 … All our reviews from the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Gillian Cosgriff: Actually, Good Reuben Kaye: The Kaye Hole Tom Ballard:…
He Huang: Bad Bitch
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Freedom is at the heart of He Huang’s debut stand-up hour, although her appealingly straightforward conversational approach never labours any such messages.