Mark Walker – Original Review
01/10/2004 … It comes as no surprise to learn that former pebbledasher Walker once fronted a pub rock band, given that his stand-up features more than a touch of rock-and-roll…
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Fri 01 October 2004
Brendan Burke – Original Review
01/10/2004 … Brendan Burke’s relaxed, storytelling style is almost a cliché of Irish stand-up; the naturally amiable raconteur entertaining with tales from his life.
Nina Conti – Original Review
01/10/2004 … With her foul-mouthed simian sidekick, Conti's skilful act increasingly deconstructs ventriloquism, which she dismisses, tongue-in-cheek, as a dying art.
Helmut – Original Review
01/10/2004 … Marc Blake's fictional German stand-up is a stereotypically stern creation who isn’t going to let his utterly humourless personality stand in the way of a…
Thu 30 September 2004
Archie Kelly – Original Review
30/09/2004 … Teacher-turned-stand-up Kelly is a comedian most decidedly in the old tradition of northern clubs - offering a joke, an impression and a song.
Wed 08 September 2004
Nick Sun – Original Review
08/09/2004 … Nepalese-Australian Sun has an appealing line in deconstructing the ethnic comedy that's so in vogue these days.
Sat 04 September 2004
Bob Doolally – Original Review
04/09/2004 … This permanently-sozzled Scottish football manager is a fine character, a six-times married star of Sixties soccer, with a catalogue of outrageous anecdotes about…
Wed 01 September 2004
Des Clarke – Original Review
01/09/2004 … Buzzing with nervous energy, Glasweigan Clarke splutters out a fractured succession of half-formed sentences and ideas, stumbling over his own debris of words and…