Ealing Comedy Festival 2021 opening gala
22/07/2021 … It just scraped in past the preposterously nicknamed ‘Freedom Day’ in any case, but even so the Ealing Comedy Festival seems as Covid-safe as you like,…
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 22 July 2021
Mon 12 July 2021
Cambridge Comedy Festival
12/07/2021 … Saturday was, by all accounts, the day to go to the Cambridge Comedy Festival: the sun was shining and the crowds were thronging.
Sun 11 July 2021
Taboo: Kate Copstick on offence in comedy
11/07/2021 … There’s no doubt Kate Copstick has an agenda in Taboo.
Wed 07 July 2021
© BBC Please Help
Review of Lucy Pearman's BBC Three comedy pilot
07/07/2021 … Anyone who’s seen Lucy Pearman’s one-woman shows will not forget her endearingly dotty sense of humour and her unwavering commitment to the absurd.
Michael Palin’s Memory Palaces
Review of Radio 4 show featuring Terry Gilliam
07/07/2021 … Michael Palin features in Michael Palin’s Memory Palaces only a little more than a bloke called Monty Python features in his eponymous Flying Circus.
Mon 05 July 2021
The Essay: Adrian Edmondson
05/07/2021 … During lockdown, it seems like every gig-starved comic has decided to dash off a book, unanimously deciding that literature, not grubby gigging, is their true calling.
Mon 21 June 2021
Aidan Goatley: 12 Films of Christmas
21/06/2021 … It’s Christmas in June, and Aidan Goatley is full of the ‘goodwill to all men’ spirit.