MC Hammersmith: Straight Outta Brompton
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2023 … It would be easy to dismiss MC Hammersmith as a cartoonish, one-joke wordsmith.
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Thu 03 August 2023
Priya Hall: Grandmother’s Daughter
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
03/08/2023 … If Priya Hall was wondering what to make her debut Fringe show about, the universe has delivered.
Tue 01 August 2023
© Hugo Glendinning The Crown Jewels
Review of Al Murray, Mel Giedroyc and more in Restoration-style farce
01/08/2023 … Veteran comedy writer Simon Nye, creator of Men Behaving Badly, has followed the standard character arc for men of a certain age and has gotten really into history,…
Sat 29 July 2023
© Boffola Pictures/Lookout Point The Power of Parker
Review of Sian Gibson's new BBC One comedy
29/07/2023 … The recent-ish past has long been a boon for mainstream sitcoms.
Tue 25 July 2023
© BBC/Big Deal Films Dreaming Whilst Black
Review of Adjani Salmon's BBC Three comedy
25/07/2023 … The wheels of the British television industry turn very slowly.
Mon 24 July 2023
© Stuart Hogben Romesh Ranganathan at Latitude 2023
Review from the Suffolk festival
24/07/2023 … Latitude’s comedy arena is big - but some comedians are bigger.
Myra DuBois at Latitude 2023
Review from the Suffolk festival
24/07/2023 … She’s billing herself as the ‘Empress of Empathy’, but reinventing herself as a mindfulness guru has done nothing to soften Myra DuBois’s…
Sun 23 July 2023
© Stuart Hogben Bridget Christie at Latitude 2023
Review from the Suffolk festival
23/07/2023 … ‘Give me a cheer if you’re a tofu-eating, Guardian-reading member of the wokerati!’ says Bridget Christie as she takes to the stage at the end…