Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
© Alex Lake Review of the curmudgeonly comedian's latest tour
13/02/2024 … Ostensibly, this show gets its title from the fact Romesh Ranganathan has an issue with the ever-grafting hustle culture, instead believing everybody should half-arse…
Review of the comic's show at the Gielgud Theatre
07/02/2024 … To deploy the cliché ‘he makes it look effortless’ can’t do justice to how instinctive the mechanics of stand-up are to Frank Skinner.
Review of the angry political commentator back on the rampage
02/02/2024 … The current backstory of fake journalist Jonathan Pie is that he’s back on the Westminster beat for the BBC, making viral videos saying what he really thinks…
Review of the newsroom satire, revived for the stage 25 years on
31/01/2024 … When I check my phone during the interval of the stage revival of Drop The Dead Donkey, I learn that GB News just managed to confuse two Sikh MPs.
Review of the comic's new stand-up tour
29/01/2024 … The wheel may remain resolutely unreinvented in Chris McCausland’s new tour, but he uses it to cement his reputation as a skilled practitioner of relatable…
Review of the new Radio 4 comedy from Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill and others
23/01/2024 … Is there something of the Royston Vasey about Icklewick? A small Northern backwater, full of eccentrics, with something sinister afoot… Not that the local…
Review of the comedian's show about dealing with a brain tumour
22/01/2024 … Quintessentially middle-class and always old beyond his years, Miles Jupp is the epitome of the button-down Englishman.
Comedian looks back on his 126-year comedy career
22/01/2024 … Save some convoluted premise setting the events in purgatory, this is a chronological run-through of the fictional – and very unlikely-sounding –…
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