Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Theatre Royal, Drury LaneParks and Recreation actor is his own modest self in a show that has rugged charm in spades, from his rocking-chair-on-the-stoop delivery of stories to entertaining …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 25, 2023
The Other Palace, London Be prepared to be won over to the pleasures of scouting by Gigglemug's winning mix of knots, knockabout games and infectious songs
You could look at the Scout moveme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2023
Old Fire Station, Oxford The Drag Race Down Under judge plays an amused, sometimes confused, observer of social foibles through an arch anthropological lens
I'm all for standup that feels ah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2023
Brighton CentreIn Settling Down, the standup promises more mature work to match his imminent parenthood but the material remains superficial
A new comedian struggles to be born in Jack White…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2023
The duo's First Final UK Tour is more amusing than astonishing but demonstrates what drew them to the confounding craft in the first place
Penn & Teller's professional relationship is al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonThe Indian standup's Unalive show is stronger for its satire on her native country's super-rich than its mild, middling musings on coronavirus
A show of two halves, this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonReminiscing about her Irish upbringing, and later being wallflowered at children's parties, Doran is an assured if reticent performer
'One of the hottest young stars in I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe Irish drag queen and activist, AKA Rory O'Neill, feelingly recounts her journey in a country long hostile to difference
What am I for any more? That's the question th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, May 29, 2023
In the run-up to the festival, our writers will choose new productions that have caught their eye " but here's a selection of those we've already reviewed
Richard Marsh has clearly seen Die …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2023
Komedia, BrightonThe standup delivers the finest set of his career " touching on fatherhood, bin bags and Van Gogh Lego
You could watch John Kearns' act for a long time before thinking of Va…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2023
Royal Festival Hall, LondonIn a quietly confident show with gags from the sophisticated to the stupid, the comic is consistently enjoyable
There's something for everyone in a Phil Wang show.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2023
The standup has successfully used laughter as a balm, creating a safe space for himself and the audience to engage with this most difficult of subjects
The death of a loved one. It's the lea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2023
Criterion theatre, LondonCaroline Leslie's production sends up the less problematic Victorian foibles with a terrifically spirited barrage of juicy one-liners, blunt anachronisms and pleasin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 14, 2023
Arts Depot, LondonHe's a celebrity and he got out of there, as we learn during this lively standup set with a reality TV slant " Matt Hancock gossip included
Babatunde Aléshé flunked his f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2023
Hackney Empire, London You'd expect bawdy lines delivered with deadpan frankness from the rising TV comedian, but injections of knockabout physicality raise her stage showpiece to higher joy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Soho theatre, London Torn between wifely duty and her dream to become the Jewish Barbra Streisand, this would-be star finds an in-between world of outrageous comedy
A teenage winner of Boreh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Brace, who has died aged 43, was a hugely talented playwright, dramaturg and director who worked on a string of hits including One-Woman Show and Age Is a Feeling
"The most high-profile dire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The controversial standup brings big cartoonish energy to his first tour since 2018, delivering a set of self-mockery and dismay at bizarre behaviour
Kevin Hart is back in the UK on his firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 22, 2023
Despite a legacy tainted by PC-baiting provocation, many will remember Humphries with affection as the carnivalesque Dame Edna and foul-mouthed Sir Les Patterson
Barry Humphries, Australian …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2023
The Hawth, CrawleyThe standup's new show takes a while to get going, but squares up to hitting 50 with material finely balanced between the thoughtful and the uproarious
Given how often comi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2023
The Stables, Milton KeynesThe man who shamed Trump and Blatter turns his gaze inward for an evening of self-reflective standup
"Anonymous prankster" is what the media calls Simon Brodkin, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2023
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe comedian is at her best when she treats us as her confidantes rather than aiming for well-worn targets
On one day in 2021 two major life events " one terr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2023
Meet the Richardsons sees the married standups play fictional versions of themselves " but that doesn't mean reality doesn't creep in from time to time
"We don't stay in posh hotels in Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 2, 2023
Cambridge JunctionThe Londoner is argumentative, entertaining and full of bracing good sense as he catalogues his personal experiences of racism
"What's your favourite racism?" With this que…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2023
Pleasance theatre, LondonA doctor himself, the standup delivers breezy tales along with on-the-nose points on how black medics are viewed
All standups operating in the space between medicine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2023
In the standup's first solo set since the huge success of their queer romcom Feel Good, we are taken on an emotional rollercoaster with confidence and charm
It's always interesting to see a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2023
Not Dead Yet addresses the return of Godley's ovarian cancer. But mostly it is a celebratory farewell from a performer who has welcomed the crowd into her remarkable life
Not Dead Yet is Jan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonAustralian comic delivers a compelling but messy exploration of grief " but where's the bear?
The "dead dad" show has become a standup genre unto itself in recent years "…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2023
After several years away, the cheeky cockney comic is doubling down on his good-old-days brand " but despite his geezerish nostalgia he's no anti-woke crusader
Micky Flanagan was worried, he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2023
A new sibling to Montreal's big comedy shindig has launched in the UK and despite the corporate guff there was a lot to laugh about
You've heard of Just for Laughs Montreal: it's one of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2023
EartH Hackney, LondonADHD, Tory supremacy and the limited appeal of 'Sir Keir' combine in another unrestrained report from the standup's struggles to hang on to optimism
Some comics alight o…
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