End Of The Pier
Theatre review by Steve Bennett
22/07/2018 … Forty-three years ago, Trevor Griffiths’s visionary play The Comedians foreshadowed the rise of alternative comedy by highlighting the damaging stereotypes…
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Sun 22 July 2018
Mon 16 July 2018
Sacha Baron Cohen: Who Is America?
16/07/2018 … Sacha Baron Cohen made his name by posing as an idiot and seeing how long politicians would indulge him.
© Stuart Hogben David O'Doherty at Latitude 2018
16/07/2018 … David O’Doherty suffered a little from being the second slightly shambolic Irishman to take to the Latitude comedy festival stage to talk about how times have…
© Andy Hollingworth Dylan Moran at Latitude
16/07/2018 … It’s not many a comedian who would note, with resignation: ‘My own family say I’m too serious.
Sun 15 July 2018
Mark Thomas - Check Up: Our NHS At 70
Review by Steve Bennett at Latitude
15/07/2018 … For his theatre show marking the 70th anniversary of the health service, Mark Thomas is more documentarian than comedian.
© Stuart Hogben Harry Hill at Latitude
15/07/2018 … Harry Hill is often described, not least by his own publicity, as a ‘wide-collared loon’: the absurd, cartoonish character who cheerily belts out snippets…
Alan Davies at Latitude 2018
15/07/2018 … Alan Davies has clearly lived the middle-aged version of festival life in the 24 or so hours between the QI session that opened the Latitude comedy arena on Friday…
Sat 14 July 2018
Mo Gilligan at Latitude
14/07/2018 … Mo Gilligan has shot to success via an unconventional route, building his fan base via character sketches online, largely bypassing the traditional industry until…