Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The outrageous standup turns a story of lifelong loneliness into an irresistible hymn to self-realisationElsewhere at the Edinburgh fringe, Rose Matafeo uses r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
Underbelly Med Quad, Edinburgh The standup aims his moral disgust at targets including the Queen, Dominic Sandbrook and Jack Whitehall, in a hilariously mean but erudite setWatching late-per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe comedian keeps things upbeat as she lightly interrogates Hollywood cliche and the role models on offer to young womenRose Matafeo has watched a lot of romco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Morpurgo's ludicrous satire on the post-show chat is so full of invention you could watch it twice and not stop laughingJoseph Morpurgo made a name for himself…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe whipsmart standup overthinks, overshares and delivers a winningly funny show that finds the humour in heartbreakCall it reinvention, or call it back to basi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2017
Since first picking up the mic at 15, the standup has tap-danced, done Aerosmith karaoke and starred in her own TV show. So why does she want to disappear offstage?Was there ever a greater d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Soho theatre, LondonBy his own standards, the 2015 Edinburgh Comedy award-winner plays it relatively straight in his new show " but there are satisfyingly daft moments'There are pockets of j…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
The lad's comic Daniel O'Reilly killed his on-stage persona after a sexism storm last year. But Dapper Laughs says he's changed. So can he prove he's a feminist " or even funny?Dapper Laughs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2017
Leicester Square theatreHer misanthropic nymphomaniac shtick may be purposefully provocative, but Pam Ann's lewd talk, Asian accents and airline industry stereotypes make for deadening humou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2017
One act offers Badults-style sketches, the other does mindbending meta-gags. Both bring new shows to a station that specialises in self-satisfied comedyThe Pin and Daphne were part of a wave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
Roundhouse, LondonKitson's observations on everything from rough sleeping to sheep farming are beautifully crafted in a set that " with some polish " should be extraordinaryAfter a string of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Friday, July 7, 2017
Hammersmith Apollo, London There's too much talk and too few new tricks amid the fire-breathing, bottle-juggling virtuosity' That's not magic: Penn, Teller and Derren Brown reveal all (or do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
Good Mourning Mrs Brown, the cross-dressing hit's live show, is so full of horseplay, guffaws and in-jokes, I started to feel like a gooseberryOne surefire way to elicit sympathy from your c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
UnderbellyAlfie Brown is opening himself up to ridicule " more even than the comedian's usual share. The 25-year-old has set himself up as a passionate critic of our cultural life, and of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
The American duo's slick act shimmers with Vegas-style glitz, while the Scottish standup's sleight of hand is as flabbergasting as his vicious jokes The classic magician image, we are told i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2017
The big-haired, sleepy-eyed standup is an Oscar-winner, one of America's best-loved comedians and 'a car that has no gears'. Now, his deadpan style has won him a perfect role in The Emoji Mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
When critics analyse a standup routine it's considered pedantic and joyless " what's wrong with being serious about comedy?Theatre critics are seldom called pedants for analysing how a stage…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM[SHARE]In a long-running tour, the supercilious standup brings back old gags, leaving a bad smell " and a loveless worldview " in his wake'I'm jealous of bands," Jimmy Carr told the NME when his cu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
The star of Catastrophe brings carnality, the elusive Kitson attempts to 'alter language', Sara Pascoe goes dating, while Hannah Gadsby goes out with a bangPenn and TellerLas Vegas's loss is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2017
The black comedy circuit is booming, with packed crowds and a host of stars. So why aren't there more on TV or at mainstream venues? Brian Logan talks to performers about cowardly producers,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Pleasance, EdinburghAt certain phrases, the heart sinks. "We all love that celebrity stuff, don't we?" says jolly Gina Yashere. Er, no, we don't. How rude Anne Robinson is, how great it woul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2017
Standup is supposedly a leftie haven. But from what I saw this week, the scene offered little support for the Labour leader " and, despite some droll insights, a lack of real debateWhere wer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2017
Sara Pascoe looks at life after a breakup, Trygve Wakenshaw brings his baby on stage, and Alexei Sayle, Ruby Wax and talkshow king Craig Ferguson all return to the fringe this yearIn recent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Soho theatre, LondonThe self-deprecating US comedian delivers a set littered with droll remarks about life in New York but the show is hamstrung by her uneaseFrom Master of None to Inside Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PM[SHARE]The freestyle standup and bandleader on The Late Late Show is in London for a gig and has no idea what he'll perform. Improv, he says, can free the mind " and maybe silliness can help save t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2017
From disrupting dam-building to toppling dictators, comedy has shown itself to be a global force for good. Here's what 'laughtivism' could do for British politicsAt a protest to mark the ina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup takes on relationships and parenthood with eloquence and wit, but he plays it too safeIn Edinburgh this August, Stuart Goldsmith will perform the world's firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 28, 2017
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghLast year, he failed to deliver a lecture on "Egyptologics". This year, it's the story of the Bible that Count Arthur Strong is finding frustratingly difficult to te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]London PalladiumThe malapropisms and garbled logic, plus a near-fatal encounter with Benedict Cumberbatch's name, make Steve Delaney's comedy character a giddying delightNot the least of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
Luisa Omielan is aiming to be as big in standup as the inspiration for her show, Beyoncé, is in pop"You're going to think I'm a dick," says Luisa Omielan, "but I've always wanted …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonLuisa Omielan secured a best newcomer nomination at last year's Edinburgh comedy awards for a show on the Free Fringe, far from the festival's main stages. I doubt she'll…
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