100 Things I Meant To Tell You by Arthur Smith
09/12/2019 … This may be legally actionable, given the reputation that Arthur Smith has carefully fostered for himself – but I’m not sure he’s all that grumpy.
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 09 December 2019
Wed 04 December 2019
Jim Jefferies: The Night Talker
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the O2, London
04/12/2019 … ‘I forget I’m famous,’ Jim Jefferies says at one point in his new stand-up show, as he recounts being spotted during a particularly ignominious…
Tue 03 December 2019
© GS TV Productions Ltd Gavin & Stacey Christmas special
03/12/2019 … ‘It’s like old times, isn’t it, babe?’ Mathew Horne’s Gavin says at the start of this festive episode, which has been a very long…
Mon 02 December 2019
Act Of God, with Zoe Lyons
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Vaults, London
02/12/2019 … In the beginning was the Twitter account, TheTweetofGod.
Thu 28 November 2019
Upright
28/11/2019 … Tim Minchin largely, but not entirely, eschews the laughs in this odd-couple road-trip drama, which boasts two intriguing characters with murky back stories.
Wed 27 November 2019
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Vic and Bob’s Big Night Out
27/11/2019 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer look like they are men with nothing to prove any more, and that’s wonderfully liberating.
Tue 26 November 2019
John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre, London
26/11/2019 … It’s easy to wax lyrical about the bathetic poetry of the mundane that hallmarks John Kearns’s work.
Mon 25 November 2019
Jack Whitehall: Stood Up
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the O2, London
25/11/2019 … No one goes to watch Jack Whitehall expecting cutting-edge comedy, but with well-honed technical skills, a huge portion of winning self-deprecation, and his posh-boy…