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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
10/03/2024 … Most stand-up documentaries are either cosy retrospectives, shot when their subject has long since passed their peak and moved on to legendary status.
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