Nick Helm: All Killer Some Filler
04/06/2020 … There’s probably no need to be reminded of all we’re missing with live comedy on its enforced hiatus - but that’s what Nick Helm’s newly-released…
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 04 June 2020
Mon 01 June 2020
Comedians: Home Alone
01/06/2020 … This must have been one of the easiest comedy compilation shows to curate.
Thu 28 May 2020
© Fudge Park/BBC The First Team
28/05/2020 … The Inbetweeners rightly raised Iain Morris and Damon Beesley to the comedy nobility.
Wed 27 May 2020
Doug Stanhope: The Dying Of A Last Breed
27/05/2020 … ‘Brutal’ is probably an over-used adjective to describe edgelord comedy, but if any stand-up can lay claim to it, Doug Stanhope can.
Tue 26 May 2020
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas on Netflix
26/05/2020 … Despite the core premise of the remarkable Nanette, Hannah Gadsby did not turn her back on stand-up.
Wed 20 May 2020
Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything
Netflix special reviewed by Steve Bennett
20/05/2020 … As the title suggests, Patton Oswalt is putting a positive spin on things in this Netflix special.
What's The Matter With Tony Slattery?
20/05/2020 … This story of what happened to Tony Slattery, 35 years after he set screens alight with his dazzling displays of mercurial comedy talent is not always an easy…
Thu 14 May 2020
© Netflix/Matt Holyoak Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe
14/05/2020 … There’s no surer sign that the hairline cracks in the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ all-in-this-together, good-old British pluck response to Covid-19…