Sunday, November 28, 2021
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonSatire has a disconcerting consequence in Vikki Stone's punchy and superbly sung version of the traditional panto
I'm sure there have been Peppa Pig World jokes in p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Friday, November 26, 2021
Pinpoint parodies of 'weird church ladies and soccer moms' made the Ohio comic famous during the pandemic " even if progressives mistake her for the real thing
Megan Stalter put a video onli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Komedia, BrightonThe comic's swaggering take on religion is ebullient before a handbrake-turn brings emotional candour too
Luisa Omielan's last show, Politics for Bitches, ostensibly about p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2021
London PalladiumThe clubbable comic casts himself as master of ceremonies in a self-effacing musical story of his life " with celeb mimicry
'I've done so many strange things in my career," s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup's rich and playful show about the menopause combines ingenious silliness with campaigning ferocity
A handful of times in the opening stages of Bridget Christi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 11, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThe American standup delivers so-bad-they're-good music parodies and sends up millennial entitlement in a bright UK debut
Best known in the UK for her scene-stealing turn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonThe twisty satirist considers mental health, white privilege and youth with vividly acted, wittily phrased jokes
Comedy audiences, we're told, are too sensitive these day…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Speech is out. Daft captions are in. Nearly everyone is beautiful. And one guy amassed 11m followers while living in emergency accommodation with his mum. Our critic samples TikTok comedy
I'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 4, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonCoronavirus and woke capitalism lead to pleasing, if patchy, polemics in the comic's latest show
"A chronicle of everything that's happened to me over the last 18 months,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe misadventures of a hapless hero led astray by his false friend are funny but don't quite fill three dimensions
There was a setback last month for this pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 31, 2021
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe comic who showered Fifa's Sepp Blatter with banknotes reveals little of the person under the character comedy mask
What a coy coming-out party of a show …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Haley McGee, James McNicholas and Mo Gilligan talk about the tricky business of turning stage performances into a reading experience
When developing her solo show The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 24, 2021
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe artist's energetic live show splices together standup, anecdotes and singing " all inspiring us to flee the monochrome and mundane
"Ted Talk " the panto!" is h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 21, 2021
Salisbury PlayhouseIan McDiarmid is outstanding in two pieces, one as an angry audience member and one a composer's coda
Halfway through Vigilance, the first act of Ian McDiarmid's solo show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Milton Keynes theatreGood albeit digressive gags keep the routines endearingly amusing in the comic's new touring show Regional Trinket
"I hate being camp," says Alan Carr, which would be su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Friday, October 15, 2021
Theatre Royal BathThe much-loved TV series becomes a series of set-pieces rather than a satisfying drama in this stage adaptation
Much is made, in the publicity around this stage refit of Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonKingsman spoofs the look-at-me egotism that sometimes animates solo shows, as she heaps meta layer upon layer in a tour de force
It seems like five minutes ago that Phoeb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonGilligan's cartoonish parade of misunderstandings and manipulations have perspective and heart
When you get rich and famous for your relatable comedy, how do you st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PM[SHARE]Friday, October 8, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonAmrou Al-Kadhi's drag alter ego, poised between self-absorption and self-irony, delivers a tart, funny and swaggering tale
"Too gay for Iraq, too Iraq for gay." That's Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 7, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonMcGrath is smart and sardonic about the after-effects of British imperialism in Africa " even if she's just skimming the surface
The Berlin Conference of 1884, the legacy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 6, 2021
NetflixRather than explore the blind spots within modern gender and racial thinking, the comedian's latest special triples down on the phobia
'I'm going all the way," is Dave Chappelle's ref…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonThe comedian is on ebullient form in a gossipy touring show about entering one's seventh decade
You can understand why Jenny Eclair might focus her standup on the e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, September 27, 2021
London PalladiumChris and Rosie Ramsey's material about their married life is jolly enough, but a five-minute advertorial is rather less so
It has 65m downloads and counting. It claims the r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 26, 2021
London PalladiumThe veteran provocateur, with his usual equal offensiveness policy, is amusing when he isn't railing at straw men in this revival of his 2019 show Supernature
"I'm a white he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, London A lovely physical performance by Saunders brings moments of joy to an otherwise unsettled production of Noël Coward's comedy
You can have a seance to get in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 20, 2021
Royal and Derngate, Northampton The spiritual comedian's lofty aspirations make way for funny riffs on fatherhood and lockdown in a self-ridiculing set
Are we here for laughs, or spiritual h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe Mock the Week man clearly enjoys his turn on the prestige stage, and Jen Brister, Athena Kugblenu and Nina Conti are able supporting players
If you must enter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 9, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThe Russian-born comic racks up the punchlines as she auditions to be a Bond girl, considers British quirks and recalls her schooldays
The comedian from far afield, obser…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 6, 2021
London Wonderground, Earls Court, LondonJarred Christmas's human cartoon antics and Hobbit's virtuoso microphone skills jolly the crowd along " but the show wasn't as interactive as billed
S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Friday, September 3, 2021
Soho theatre, LondonThe comedian flops in a New York hotel room, sheds his inhibitions at an ayahuasca ceremony and visits a Berlin sex club as he explores his midlife crisis
No one zeroes i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The producer whose TV hits include The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacey on finding the poignancy in life's little moments, and heading back to the comedy circuit with his poetry
Comedians b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
