Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Stables, Milton Keynes Fresh from a stint on America's Got Talent, Sam Wills delivers a captivating set of skits that bring the audience on stage and celebrate the improbableAmerica's Got T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2016
Nottingham PlayhouseBack from comedic and political hibernation, swaggering as always but a little less potent in new show ExposedIt feels like another age, that still-recent time when Russe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02PM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2016
The scary pranksters with red noses and outsize shoes running amok on the streets are the antithesis of a great tradition, says the celebrated clown teacher Schools were barricaded, Hallowee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
The innovative outfit that cultivated talents such as Tim Key and Claudia O'Doherty is no more. So why, during this boom time for comedy, did it fail?Three weeks ago, it went into voluntary …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2016
A new film blurs fiction and reality with its tale of an aspiring comic. It asks to what extent you can study to become funny " or if you're just born that way"The Comedian's Guide to Surviv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonOnce you're over your participation-phobia, Riches' combination of broad character-comedy and coercive stunts makes for daft fun' Paul Flecky: 'My job is to hurl things, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonIf the style is unadventurous, there are still plenty of good jokes as Forde scours the aftermath of the EU referendumBrexit comedy shows are coming thick and fast, and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2016
It's the job of standups to hold institutions to account " laugh by laugh " so why aren't more of them laying bare the anachronistic daftness of the royal family?Is it just me, or are we liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2016
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonDizzying cosmology show provides workout for the brain, with one part entertainment to 13.8bn parts educationProfessor Brian Cox finds a lot of things "beaut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Royal Albert Hall, LondonBrexit gifts the Little Englander a barrel-load of acidic spoofs, but this act seems content to serve up just the mildFor most of Al Murray's career as The Pub Landl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghRanganathan has plenty to say about veganism, choosing schools and interracial relationships, but this is an uneven hour of comedyRomesh Ranganathan was nominat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThe aggressively odd Dutch comedian skirts Bernard Manning territory, but also forces you to interrogate your opinions while you laugh in astonishment"I don't know what y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2016
After the success of Tape Face and Piff the Magic Dragon, purveyors of overlooked artforms might do well to swap panel-heavy British comedy for the StatesWhen I interviewed Sam Wills " AKA T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21PM[SHARE]Soho theatre, LondonThe usually sanguine standup draws laughs and skewers stereotypes with her account of being leftwing in a rightwing age"The David Bowie of standup," comedian Nish Kumar r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2016
Comic Jerry Sadowitz denounced Jimmy Savile years before he was exposed. Now, writes Brian Logan, he's asking why the death of his friend Mark Blanco has never been properly investigatedThe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
Ofcom has censured an old episode of TV Burp, eight years after deeming its skit about a transgender man acceptable. It signals a sea change in how trans issues are treated on the small scre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 24, 2016
Are the Python's comments damagingly off-message or warming us up for shows that will be more than a cynical nostalgia fest?Were you excited when you heard Monty Python were reuniting for li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Brighton CentreA familiar cast of indelible comic characters and pithy catchphrases imbue the veteran duo's live show with a comforting glowTo open their first live show, commemorating 25 ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50PM[SHARE]Political correctness used to rule comedy, but now comics routinely offend their audiences. How did things get so nasty?' Richard Herring and Brendon Burns complained about this article; the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AM[SHARE]On stage, the absurdist Dutch comedian is all fairytales and silly songs. Off it, he's a deadly serious " and controversial " political campaigner. He talks fun, failure and freedom of speec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
Cambridge JunctionPickling The Three Musketeers in their loopy imaginations, the storytelling double-act delight with a series of ad-libbed sketches "Remove your shoes," Mark Chavez deadpans…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThe self-effacing former public schoolboy is painfully honest about his hangups in this lovely, well-written comic set' Ten questions for Ivo GrahamIt's been suggested to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:52PM[SHARE]Fairfield Halls, CroydonThe current Edinburgh's funniest joke incumbent proves his mastery of the obscure pun " but doesn't seem to have much personal stake in his material"I decided to sell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Cambridge Corn ExchangeSome shows date quicker than others. "I've had another shit year," says Rhod Gilbert, introducing this touring version of his 2009 Edinburgh festival show. But " even …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Epsom Playhouse Fury at Britain's political masters has been replaced by mild tales about life's inconveniences in the News Quiz host's latest show, Songs of FreedomUntil his last tour in 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
James Acaster has penned a sitcom pilot and Liam Williams has written a play. Both bring echoes of their striking comedy routines but neither is as successfulSitcoms, in the UK at least, are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThe Australian standup's new set, Hussain in the Membrane, works best when it zeroes in on racial and religious sensitivitiesThe most eye-catching feature of Nazeem Hussa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
There was an outpouring of emotional candour from standups at the Edinburgh festival, but Schumer skilfully keeps her anxieties at a safe distanceDoes Amy Schumer's new tour justify the hype…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 3, 2016
The Will and Grace star on writing songs about genitals and baring all in a new stage show about the blissful " and highly sexed " state of her union with Parks & Recreation actor Nick O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
Leicester Square theatre, LondonWehn dials down the Teutonic stereotypes to launch into material other comics might find too weighty " such as the farce of the London housing marketAfter 13 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:14PM[SHARE]Soho Theatre, London"If there's something strange in the neighbourhood/ Who you gonna call? Hans Teeuwen!" It takes bulletproof self-belief to conduct an opening night crowd in a singalong o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE] 
