Rishi Sunak's Doing A Musical!
Review of a hastily-written topical satire
03/07/2024 … There’s a giddy end-of-term feeling to Rishi Sunak's Doing A Musical!, a spirited farewell-and-good-riddance to the Tories, hastily written after the Prime…
2024 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Wed 03 July 2024
Thu 27 June 2024
© ITV/Hartswood Films Douglas Is Cancelled
Review of Steven Moffat's timely comedy-drama with Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillen
27/06/2024 … Rows about cancel culture tend to be reductive.
Kirsty Mann: Skeletons
Review of comic's tale of keeping her double life secret
27/06/2024 … Pretty much everyone trying to get on in the underfunded arts will be able to identify with Kirsty Mann’s situation in trying to juggle a conventional job…
Wed 26 June 2024
Michelle Collins: The Big Natural Tour
Gig review from the Soho Theatre, London
26/06/2024 … It’s the least surprising thing livewire American comic Michelle Collins says when, halfway through her chaotically freewheeling set, she mentions that she…
Wed 12 June 2024
© BBC/James Stack Inside No 9: Plodding On
Review of the last ever episode
12/06/2024 … WARNING: Contains some spoilers from tonight’s finale For the last episode of Inside No 9, Steve Pemberton got to play one of the most devious characters…
Tue 11 June 2024
Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?
Review of the comedian's tour about his testicular cancer
11/06/2024 … It’s definitely wrong to try to rank the funniest forms of cancer a comedian could get.
Mon 10 June 2024
© David Monteith-Hodge Jazz Emu: Knight Fever
Review of the funky musical comedian at the Soho Theatre
10/06/2024 … Jazz Emu surely deserves a knighthood for his contribution to musical comedy.
Tue 04 June 2024
A Comedy Tribute To Andy Smart
Comedians remember their much-loved colleague
04/06/2024 … You can tell the manner of a comedian by who turns out for their tribute gig, and Andy Smart drew some of the funniest folk around for the fundraiser in his honour…