Do-Gooders
Review of Garrett Millerick's new Radio 4 workplace comedy
30/07/2024 … Garrick Millerick’s acerbically jaded worldview is evident from the pre-credit scene of Do Gooders, in which his character is being grilled about the lack…
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Tue 30 July 2024
Sat 20 July 2024
© Moniker Pictures Piglets
Review of ITV1's new police recruit comedy
20/07/2024 … They may have had to go back 20 years to get the old writing team back together again, but ITV deserves to have a hit on its hands with Piglets.
Thu 18 July 2024
Daniel Kitson: Collaborator
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…
Tue 16 July 2024
© Steve Best 99 Club Bursary Showcase 2024
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…
Mon 15 July 2024
Kingston Comedian Of The Year
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.
Mon 08 July 2024
© BBC/Various Artists Limited Spent
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.
Wed 03 July 2024
Rishi Sunak's Doing A Musical!
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…
Thu 27 June 2024
© ITV/Hartswood Films Douglas Is Cancelled
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.