Glasgow International Comedy Festival Closing Gala 2024
Review of the festival's big hurrah
31/03/2024 … Usually when a compere's suddenly overwhelmed it's an ominous sign.
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Sun 31 March 2024
Ralph Brown: My First Hostage Situation
Review from the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
31/03/2024 … In any given year at the Edinburgh Fringe there are stories that escape the festival bubble and pierce the consciousness of the wider world, be that Jerry Sadowitz's…
Fri 29 March 2024
© Apple Steve! (Martin): A Documentary In Two Pieces
Review ow the new Apple film about the comic's life and work
29/03/2024 … Although it’s an unusual decision, it makes sense to tell Steve Martin’s story in two distinct parts – for his life and his career have two separate…
Thu 28 March 2024
© Dancing Ledge/Channel 4 
Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing?
Review of the comic at Soho Theatre
28/03/2024 … Amid all the oddballs doing stand-up, Pierre Novellie seems like one of the most well-adjusted: eloquent, composed and wearing his Cambridge-educated sophistication…
Mon 25 March 2024
© Kash Yusaf Reginald D Hunter: The Man Who Could See Through Shit
Review of the comic's latest tour
25/03/2024 … Given the self-mythologising title, I wonder what Reginald D Hunter might say if he could apply that bullshit detector to his own tour? Possibly that it feels incomplete;…
Scott Agnew's Scottish Square Sausage Show – Sunday Social
Glasgow International Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
25/03/2024 … From Tony Hancock's reverence for Fred's Pie Stall and The Goodies' Ecky Thump, through The League Of Gentlemen's 'special stuff' and Tom…
Fri 22 March 2024
© Paul Gilbey Fesshole Live
Review from the Glasgow International Comedy Festival
22/03/2024 … Surveying the dreadful, divided state of X, formerly known as Twitter, nowadays, you'd be forgiven for forgetting what a democratising effect it had on humour…