© Matt Crockett Maisie Adam: Appraisal
21/10/2024 … If this really was a job appraisal for how Maisie Adam’s career was going, you’d have to assume she’d ace it.
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Mon 21 October 2024
© Matt Crockett Fri 18 October 2024
The Office Australia
Review of Amazon Prime Video's new remake
18/10/2024 … Do we need another English language version of The Office? That might be the obvious question to ask before embarking on a new remake with an Australian…
Fri 11 October 2024
© Dave Freak Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2024
Review of the showcase, with Tom Towelling named winner
11/10/2024 … It’s described as the West Midlands biggest comedy award… so what is that treasured prize? A branded mug.
Fri 04 October 2024
Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up
Review of the South African comedian on tour in the UK
04/10/2024 … The standard stance for male comedians in their 30s is to wonder if they’re ready for proper adulthood yet, as they see their contemporaries with real jobs…
Wed 02 October 2024
What's the Taskmaster Live Experience like?
Spoiler-free review of the new attraction
02/10/2024 … The first rule of the Taskmaster Live Experience should be that you do not about the Taskmaster Live Experience, given that not quite being sure what to expect is…
Mon 30 September 2024
© Alex Lake Just The Tonic London opening night
With Romesh Ranganathan and more
30/09/2024 … There is a part of East London that is forever Nottingham – well, for the foreseeable at least.
Wed 25 September 2024
© BBC / Big Talk Ludwig
Review of David Mitchell's new comedy-crime series
25/09/2024 … It’s been commissioned out of the BBC’s comedy department, but Ludwig falls into the same category of charming whodunits as Death In Paradise or Father…
The Exploding Heads presents: Colin From Portsmouth
25/09/2024 … With Colin from Portsmouth – a furious radio phone-in blowhard who parrots every right-wing outrage going – the Exploding Heads enliven…