Sunday, May 20, 2018
Brighton DomeAward-winning standup serves up ruthless self-mockery in a show that is playful and pugnacious in equal measureLying, says Bridget Christie, has been tainted by association with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]After their YouTube video went viral, the comedy duo are expanding their Stop Ukip tour. But do they have anything new to say about Nigel Farage's party?' Stewart Lee: a vision of life under…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 19, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonIn her new show Mistress and Misfit the standup delivers droll tales, gasp-inducing skits and a Georgian history lessonMistress and Misfit, Shappi Khorsandi's latest set,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonIn her show One-Seventeen, the Australian comedian grapples with big ideas but these absorbing stories don't fully connectIn a recent trilogy of shows, Sarah Kendall told…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Comedian Alexei Sayle got heckled by his 90-year-old mother, who calls his memoirs 'a pack of lies', so it's no mystery where he gets his tireless revolutionary fury fromAlexei Say…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2018
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendO Briain mines his public status, midlife hypochondria and the march of technology for his new show Voice of ReasonPlymouth, Dubai, Oslo " the locations of three con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]Her caustic White House correspondents' dinner speech will be no shock for fans of the former Daily Show contributorWhen Michelle Wolf arrived at the Edinburgh festival in 2016 she was the l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 29, 2018
The Hawth, CrawleyThe shock-haired master of wordplay unearths some terrific one-liners in a comedy quest to revive his archaeology careerAudiences come to Milton Jones for one thing, and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Assembly George Square, EdinburghFrom sperm selection to sexual anthropology to dating woes, a super-entertaining Pascoe gets personalSara Pascoe has been looking at history's epic romances,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe US comic has charisma and craft but reinforces gender stereotypes with cartoonish vigour in a set that falls flatIliza Shlesinger raised hackles last summer w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe laidback raconteur gets political and personal with riffs on everything from the US vice-president to PG Tips'I don't believe people's joy," says Marc Maron. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe south Londoner's hit character sketches transfer smoothly from social media to the comedy club in this crowd-pleasing showIt's been a big year for south L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2018
Just a month before their first child is due, the standup couple are doing a show together " seeking the audience's parenting tips"It's mad," says Josie Long, "but it feels like the right th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonAllen's amiable routines about gay and working-class stereotyping foreground his abundant skills as a raconteurIf Tom Allen weren't already hosting a primetime Saturday n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AM[SHARE]As Maxine Peake takes the mic to play a club comic in Funny Cow, here are five movies that capture the lacerating, soul-baring world of live comedyThere's something so intimate, exposing and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThe naturally funny panel-show regular inhabits a small world, but he makes those narrow horizons teem with possibility and comic lifeWhen Mark Thomas engages …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonHis new show Teztify is a jumble of familiar, subversive and incongruous humour, put it all pulls together for a powerful denouementTez Ilyas's touring show Teztify begin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2018
Nottingham ArenaMcIntyre's endearing observations and self-mockery remain, but there's an inescapable sense of deja vu in a show that breaks no new groundMichael McIntyre's Big World Tour, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:41AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2018
Leicester Square theatre, London The celebrated standup mines her self-doubt and general bafflement with life in a fine hour of extreme idiosyncrasyThe sense of event is palpable at Leiceste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Soho theatre, London The standup critiques virtue-signalling modern culture in a thoughtful set argued with a light touch'Do you guys remember truth?" Sara Schaefer is over from America to d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
Dodd, who has died aged 90, was a force of nature " a cheeky master of the one-liner who spread happiness in shows that lasted until the small hoursKen Dodd, who has died aged 90, was quite …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2018
New Zealand's 'fourth most popular folk-parody act' are on a sold-out arena tour. Is there a shrewdness behind the duo's laidback shtick?Few comedians ever play London's O2 Arena and fewer s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonBret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement return with hilarious dialogue and new songs that easily scale the dizzy heights of their best workWe knew months ago that Flight of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Old Market, BrightonThere's no shortage of self-depreciating chatter as the comic looks back on a life of globetrotting in his touring show'I'm going to talk about my holidays, then I'm …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2018
Ronnie Scott's, LondonThe standup and singer has stellar personality, and a few neat lines, but not all of her material lands with a London audience"If I looked at a crib sheet that much dur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendBailey's honest enthusiasm for the marginal, the overlooked and the seldom juxtaposed is delightfulMore than three decades into his career, Bill Bailey's shows march…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Cited as one of the all-time great standup sets, Leary's show both hasn't aged well and has never been more topical'I'm an asshole," sings Denis Leary in a signature number at the start of N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonShortlisted for best newcomer at the Edinburgh festival, Pattison delivers a drolly direct account of an annus horribilisYou may not associate live comedy with tales of l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonThe Edinburgh award-nominated standup develops a cheery rapport with the audience in this promising first showIf you want tragicomedy that cuts deep " or, for that matter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Marlowe theatre, CanterburyThe comic's latest show is bursting with gags about bodily functions but reveals precious little about Millican herselfSarah Millican doesn't appear much in the ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2018
Soho theatre, London Pop legends in their own minds, this swaggering five-piece retool Whitney and Beyoncé songs into sharp-clawed attacks on Trump and IslamThe conceit of drag girlband Den…
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