Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Review of the comedian's latest high-concept work
18/07/2024 … In common with many right-minded people, Daniel Kitson dislikes audience participation, calling it 'creatively bankrupt and ethically questionable’, objecting…
© Steve Best Review of five female comics making their Fringe debut
16/07/2024 … Making one small step towards levelling comedy’s male-dominated playing field, London’s 99 Club has been awarding £500 to two female or non-binary…
Review of the latest new comedy final
15/07/2024 … Surely the only final anyone cared about yesterday was the Crack Comedy club’s inaugural new act competition.
© BBC/Various Artists Limited Review of Michelle De Swarte's new semi-autobiographical comedy
08/07/2024 … BBC comedy chefs have said they want to make more laugh-out-loud comedies and fewer semi-autobiographical comedy-dramas.
Review of a hastily-written topical satire
03/07/2024 … There’s a giddy end-of-term feeling to Rishi Sunak's Doing A Musical!, a spirited farewell-and-good-riddance to the Tories, hastily written after the Prime…
© ITV/Hartswood Films Review of Steven Moffat's timely comedy-drama with Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillen
27/06/2024 … Rows about cancel culture tend to be reductive.
Review of comic's tale of keeping her double life secret
27/06/2024 … Pretty much everyone trying to get on in the underfunded arts will be able to identify with Kirsty Mann’s situation in trying to juggle a conventional job…
Gig review from the Soho Theatre, London
26/06/2024 … It’s the least surprising thing livewire American comic Michelle Collins says when, halfway through her chaotically freewheeling set, she mentions that she…
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