© James Ennis Komedia New Comedy Award 2024
16/02/2024 … I’d wager the judges’ scores must have been pretty tight at the final of Komedia’s New Comedy Award.
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Fri 16 February 2024
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© Manuel Harlan The Frogs
Review of Spymonkey’s messy take on an ancient comedy classic
14/02/2024 … Are the old ones the best? That’s the hypothesis comedy troupe Spymonkey are putting to the test with this updated version of Aristophanes’ The Frogs…
Tue 13 February 2024
© Alex Lake Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle
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…
Wed 07 February 2024
Frank Skinner: 30 Years Of Dirt in the West End
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.
Fri 02 February 2024
Jonathan Pie: Heroes And Villains
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…
Wed 31 January 2024
Drop The Dead Donkey: The Reawakening
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.
Mon 29 January 2024
Chris McCausland: Yonks!
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…
Tue 23 January 2024
Icklewick FM
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…