Sunday, August 5, 2012
Daniel Kitson doesn't do tours, interviews, TV or DVDs. So how did a reclusive enigma become the most sought after standup of his generation? As the comic prepares to appear at Edinburgh, Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMPleasance CourtyardRich Peppiatt is not, by his own admission, a comedian. And his show barely qualifies as live comedy: it's mainly video clips, screened in a tent at the Pleasance until, y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMPleasance CourtyardConsciously or otherwise, New Zealand comic Rhys Darby's set keeps recalling Flight of the Conchords, the HBO sitcom that made his name. In this show's tenuous framing dev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Edinburgh corporatisation is the new hot topic, while American comic Dane Cook courts controversy by joking about the Aurora shootings – plus your take on the week's comedy eventsBest of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:59AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Lilian Baylis Studio, LondonFor those wondering what this month's overblown corporate carnival in the East End has to do with sport, here's a reminder that the Olympics were never simpl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMGervais collaborator gets his own TV pilot, Pegg's Comic-Con costume fetish causes offence, and Russell Brand wants to be a vicar ... so it seemsBest of the week's newsStephen Merchant is wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMGervais collaborator gets his own TV pilot, Pegg's Comic-Con costume fetish causes offence, and Russell Brand wants to be a vicar ... so it seems Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
John McEnroe suffers a sense of humour failure over use of his catchphrase and comic Daniel Tosh seems to think rape is a laughing matterBest of the week's newsSo what have we learned about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMWednesday, July 4, 2012
Arcola Tent, London"I was a faghag when to be a faghag was a glorious thing," says the performance artist Penny Arcade. Now 62, Arcade (real name: Susana Ventura) worked with Andy Warho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Russell Brand's new TV show Brand X fails to wow the US critics, while Eddie Izzard treats LA to a French-speaking gigBest of the week's newsWith his recent select committee appearance, tour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Accusations of tax avoidance, the most influential people in comedy, Russells, and Alastair and Armando square upBest of the week's newsThe 8 Out of 10 Cats host, Jimmy Carr, finds himself s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PMMonday, June 18, 2012
Got any stupid video recordings from the age of VHS? Brian Logan meets two men who are turning their love of 'found footage' into a comedy festivalReading this on mobile? Click here to viewS…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PMThursday, May 17, 2012
Soho theatre, LondonMike Birbiglia's girlfriend can win arguments without actually arguing. "That's how I feel," she will simply say – which is as conclusive as it is infuriating. My Girlf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonWatching Shakespeare, we usually get to savour the most beautiful words ever written. In this latest instalment of the Globe to Globe international season, the phr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMSunday, March 18, 2012
Secret location, London"Did you get it?", asks a caption on a wall as we exit A Tender Subject, Mark Storor's new performance installation for Artangel. Well, yes and no. The event, which ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29PMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Jermyn Street, LondonWhen Rainer Hersch started performing his mix of comedy and classical music, he found himself repeatedly compared to Victor Borge. He didn't know who Borge was – few n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PMSunday, March 11, 2012
Samantha Spiro got a breakthrough award at 42, and is about to take on the biggest role of her career. She tells Brian Logan why it was worth the wait Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMThursday, March 8, 2012
Millican's new show might seal the comedian's entry into the mainstream – but will it get beyond her favourite subjects of sex and self-mockery?The very first line of standup comic Sarah M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
Festivals seem to be a permanent fixture on the national theatre scene. So how could I make Camden's Sprint festival different?In a world of perpetual festivals, how does any individual one …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2012
BAC, LondonLeadership is a prized quality in these rudderless times, but we seldom think hard about what it means. Performance poet-turned-comedian Tim Clare has done that thinking for us, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Wyndhams, LondonThere comes a point when comic scepticism shades into cynicism – about halfway through Jackie Mason's West End show, to be precise. I enjoyed the first half of this farewel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PMMonday, February 20, 2012
The Daykin sisters do comedy sketches sending up their know-it-all uncle and their parents' divorce. How much of it is true? Brian Logan finds outGiven the comic potential of sibling ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMStandups like Peter Kay and John Bishop pride themselves on being everyman comedians. So does it matter if they're raking in squillions every year?It's often said that football has never bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMStandups like Peter Kay and John Bishop pride themselves on being everyman comedians. So does it matter if they're raking in squillions every year? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, February 19, 2012
The truth might hurt but hatchet jobs are too muchA fortnight ago, a new prize was awarded to critic Adam Mars-Jones for the Hatchet Job of the Year, for a review he wrote of Micha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMThursday, February 16, 2012
Riverside Studios, London"We want it swept clean. Totally sanitised," says an American diplomat, plotting the forced depopulation of the Chagos islands to allow the construction of a co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Orchard theatre, Dartford"Some people leave my show feeling hurt. Broken. Destroyed," says Reginald D Hunter, by way of an introduction. It's part of his considerable charisma, this offer of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Leicester's Comedy festival will this year host a Silver Standup competition. Will an aggressively young artform embrace older voices?In the course of her standup career, now into its fourth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PMMonday, February 6, 2012
Bloomsbury, LondonSay the first thing that comes into your head, runs the golden rule of improv. That's easier said than done, and Terry Alderton's manic standup show dramatises the difficul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMSunday, November 13, 2011
Stewart Lee has released his standup routine as a play script – but does the humour translate to the page?'Standup is finally the big business the industry has hoped it would be ever since…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMFriday, November 11, 2011
G Live, Guildford"If it carries on like this," says cockney comic Micky Flanagan of his newfound success, "I'm seriously considering signing off." Flanagan is a former East End window cleane…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PM 
