
2024 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 28 March 2024


Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing?
Review of the comic at Soho Theatre
28/03/2024 … Amid all the oddballs doing stand-up, Pierre Novellie seems like one of the most well-adjusted: eloquent, composed and wearing his Cambridge-educated sophistication…
Mon 25 March 2024

Reginald D Hunter: The Man Who Could See Through Shit
Review of the comic's latest tour
25/03/2024 … Given the self-mythologising title, I wonder what Reginald D Hunter might say if he could apply that bullshit detector to his own tour? Possibly that it feels incomplete;…

Scott Agnew's Scottish Square Sausage Show – Sunday Social
Glasgow International Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
25/03/2024 … From Tony Hancock's reverence for Fred's Pie Stall and The Goodies' Ecky Thump, through The League Of Gentlemen's 'special stuff' and Tom…
Fri 22 March 2024

Fesshole Live
Review from the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
22/03/2024 … Surveying the dreadful, divided state of X, formerly known as Twitter, nowadays, you'd be forgiven for forgetting what a democratising effect it had on humour…
Sun 10 March 2024

Janey
Review of the new documentary about stand-up Janey Godley
10/03/2024 … Most stand-up documentaries are either cosy retrospectives, shot when their subject has long since passed their peak and moved on to legendary status.
Fri 08 March 2024

Sorry/Not Sorry
Review of the New York Times film about Louis CK's sexual misconduct
08/03/2024 … Towards the end of Sorry/Not Sorry, the documentary about Louis CK's sexual harassment of female comedians, Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, suggests…

Leigh Francis: My First Time
Review of the Keith Lemon creator's debut live show
08/03/2024 … The abiding image of Leigh Francis’s first live tour after a couple of decades of small-screen success is probably Dec anally violating Ant with one of their…