Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Brian Logan: Vic Reeves's sparring partner asks why certain comics still hog the TV schedules. Plus Jim Davidson, Jerry Lewis and moreBrian Logan
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMMonday, January 6, 2014
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe cabaret trio are at their best when they deviate from their genteel-does-crude shtickI'm a sucker for a tortuous rhyme, so I'll cut the songwriters who pair "p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:44AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
ITV gets worried about offensive terminology, BBC goes for gender-balanced panel shows and Panorama takes on Comic Relief. Plus: Prince to act on a sitcom … as himselfThis week's comedy ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMSunday, December 8, 2013
In live comedy, it seems that no one feels any further need to apologise for using material about Operation Yewtree. But should they?How soon is too soon to joke about the crimes of Jimmy Sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMTuesday, December 3, 2013
Red-top brands comedian a hypocrite, Jack Dee criticises Crewe and Jimmy Carr tells Ross Noble not to knock Mock the WeekThis week's comedy newsThe gloves are off in Brand versus the Sun. On…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Leicester Square theatre, LondonDonnelly's easygoing pub banter is low-horizoned stuff that rarely reaches for anything more challenging – or more satisfyingCarl Donnelly was nominated for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonTruth, falsehood and the autobiographies of Andre Agassi, Michael Caine and Cherie Blair in a high-concept show whose cleverness only slightly outshines its jokesDoes it …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
TV writer Brian Lowry in hot water, Reginald Hunter says being called misogynist is 'rude' and Omid Djalili tries to crack America – againThis week's comedy newsAn august organ makes a foo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:21AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Cleese and crew in 'secret talks', with a press conference imminent. Plus: is legendary comic Andy Kaufman really dead?• Monty Python: five favourite sketches – videoThis week's comedy n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
There's Much A-Stew about Lee as critic walks out. Meanwhile, Judi Dench fights film censorship and Ricky Gervais joins an animal activist campaignThis week's comedy newsAccusations and coun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMLeicester Square theatre, LondonBaker's voyage through the first 13 bestselling singles of the 21st century makes for a light and tight showIt starts with Bob the Builder, so at first you fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Hunter's followers retaliate with death threats. Plus: Russell Brand is 'double double against genocide', Jon Stewart lashes out at media and John Cleese hates today's comedyThis week's come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Beck theatre, HayesThe Pub Landlord doesn't serve up radical new comedy, but Murray is a quick wit who turns his tactlessness on himselfThere are two comedians preaching revolution at the mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMThursday, October 31, 2013
Watch a brand-new Channel 4 online comedy series, the Alernative Comedy Memorial Society, starring Isy Suttie, Thom Tuck, Josie Long and a firmament of other comedy starsReading on mobile? C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Stand-up comedian says the show is 'terrible'. Plus: Jo Brand cracks a Prince Harry cocaine joke, Russell Brand edits the New Statesman and moreThis week's comedy news Panel shows are, not f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29PMMonday, October 28, 2013
Firestation, WindsorConaty's loveable loser makes for charming company, but she's in need of a few more winning linesWould you prefer charm or craft from your standup? Roisin Conaty has heap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28PMMonday, October 21, 2013
Arts theatre, LondonThe American comic duo adds a few more oddball characters to its pantheon in this spry fantasy epicThey're not household names and they have no TV profile yet, but here t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, October 20, 2013
O2 Arena, LondonIf you've got a taste for straight-up 1970s nostalgia comedy, you'll take a lot away from comedy stalwart Micky Flanagan's latest setYou may have seen Micky Flanagan on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMTuesday, October 15, 2013
The Britain's Got Talent judge says she was attacked by an unnamed comic, 21st-century comics grapple with homosexuality, and David Brent realises his rock-god dreamsNot much to laugh about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMMonday, October 14, 2013
Bloomsbury Theatre, LondonI defy you to love The Office and not experience a shiver of pleasure to see its anti-hero swagger onstage in this showHe's been invited to play Wembley Arena, if y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53PMLeicester Square theatre, LondonThe standup was on excellent form dismantling the half-truths we tell to keep oblivion at bayWe're All Going to Die! Richard Herring tells us in the title of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Birmingham Symphony Hall Comic gets the balance right between imparting hippie-leftie wisdom and sending himself upThe show begins, and Russell Brand comes among us, pressing flesh all the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00PMThe US comedian slams Two and a Half Men's Chuck Lorre for nabbing her gags, Jennifer Saunders slags off the BBC and Johnny Vegas interviews himselfThis week's comedy newsIt's a powderkeg is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
The Daily Express blasts Lee Mack for his views on female comedians, a bunch of comedians take part in skirmishes, and Hello Ladies gets lacklustre reviewsThis week's comedy newsYou know you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Their wrestling show put Edinburgh in a chokehold, their latest play hits London soon – and they've only been at the comedy game a few monthsIn spring this year, Max Olesker and Ivan Gonza…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
While Nan gets a TV show of her own, Jason Manford protests high booking fees, and comedy writers clash over Radio 4This week's comedy newsAfter last week's news of Mitchell and Webb's sketc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMMonday, September 23, 2013
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe host of Channel 4's The Last Leg offers jolly but rudimentary standup that keeps the crowd in raptures"It's just about putting joy into a room," says Adam Hills…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMSunday, September 22, 2013
Brighton DomeStewart Lee has set the bar so high, he can hardly be criticised for not always vaulting it. At his best, he takes comedy out on new limbs: the pleasure of laught…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:05AMFriday, September 20, 2013
Swan, High WycombeThere's plenty of straight standup tonight, but the best of Bailey's material comes back, as ever, to sound"A pox on lol!" Bill Bailey wants laughter, not acronyms for laug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
The comedy duo head back to the airwaves – just as Charlie Higson bemoans the lack of British sketch shows on TV and Adrian Edmondson loses interest in comedy altogetherThis week's comedy …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMUnion Chapel, LondonBuxton's latest show shines a light on internet comment threads, but his own material never quite hits the same bizarre heightsHumanity in all its banality and pettiness …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50AM 
