The Greatest 50 Films In 50 Sketches
05/03/2018 … Forget the Oscars, THE biggest cinema-based event last night was surely The Greatest 50 Films In 50 Sketches, an assembly of acts penning bespoke five-minute routines…
Latest Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Mon 05 March 2018
Sun 04 March 2018
Super November
First review of Josie Long's first feature film
04/03/2018 … ■ BY JAY RICHARDSON At the Glasgow Film Festival Josie Long's first film contains plenty of the elements familiar from her stand-up: the unabashed…
Sat 03 March 2018
Soft Border Patrol and The Young Offenders
03/03/2018 … Well, it couldn’t be more timely: a comedy about those patrolling a fudged border between Northern Ireland and the Republic after whatever botched Brexit deal…
Mon 26 February 2018
East European Comedy Festival: English Speaking Comedy Borsch
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Top Secret Comedy Club, London
26/02/2018 … As temperatures turn decidedly Baltic, what better time for a festival of East European comedy? For expats in multicultural London, it’s a chance to sample…
Thu 22 February 2018
Jonathan Pie: Back To The Studio
Gig review by Steve Bennett at The New Theatre, Oxford
22/02/2018 … At the National Theatre, Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston is resurrecting the 1976 film Network, the rage-to-riches story of newsreader Howard Beale who’s…
Sun 18 February 2018
Hold The Sunset
Review of John Cleese's new comedy
18/02/2018 … Why do bad things happen to good people? Well, not bad exactly, but decidedly mediocre.
Thu 15 February 2018
So I'm Single...
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Bill Murray, London
15/02/2018 … Lemon Comedy pride themselves on being the ‘most inclusive’ promoters going.
Wed 14 February 2018
Bliss
14/02/2018 … It’s the perfect premise for farce, so it’s a surprise that bigamy hasn’t really been the subject of a TV comedy before.