Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghIn an impressive show, Sami Abu Wardeh delivers a collage of historical storytelling, jokes about colonialism and clowning
When Sami Abu Wardeh performed his hit sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMMonday, August 4, 2025
Orchard at the Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe US star’s engaging set is largely an earnest love letter to her non-binary child and newly adopted home of Ireland
A month ago, Donald Trump bra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMMonkey Barrel, EdinburghThe charismatic standup rails against middle age with inventive and sometimes lurid material about the perimenopause
Desiree Burch is 46. For most comedians, this is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMSunday, August 3, 2025
Orchard at Gilded Balloon, EdinburghPerforming standup after a decade away, Davies rawly discusses his abuse by his father and delivers big laughs with other material
It’s been 10 years si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMMonday, July 21, 2025
It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, July 16, 2025
Artsdepot, LondonThe comedian staggers from the soft play area to deliver a sharp set about Sisyphus, capitalism and motherhood
Her last tour, Success Story, found Sara Pascoe in the loved-u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, July 14, 2025
The foppish comic underwent a drugs trial to fund his Edinburgh show – and caught malaria. The next year he almost died on stage with an exploded appendix. Why is he going back?
‘In retr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AMMonday, July 7, 2025
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonMinchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour show
It’s 20 years since Tim Minchin’s life-changing E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMMonday, June 30, 2025
Desiree Burch returns, Bridget Christie drops in and Toussaint Douglass flies while Joe Kent-Walters goes beyond the grave and Jazz Emu has a midlife crisis
It’s six years since Desiree Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, June 24, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonThe comic’s tale of his lifelong love affair with the US – and a doomed bid to make it big in Hollywood – is a great platform for his vocal and mimicry talent
‘I …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, June 23, 2025
How has Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz followed up her TV hits? With a rollicking, sub-Game of Thrones epic based on a Liverpudlian legend. Will the happy couple go and see it?
The ben…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, June 11, 2025
Royal Albert Hall, LondonDavies uses his ostentatiously puerile sense of humour to fine comic effect, with a series of stories capturing his long struggle to get over himself
Hold forth for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
In a riotous show, Garry Starr dons a tailcoat, flippers and little else to re-enact a bookshelf full of classics. Would you help him bring The Jungle Book to life?
Comedy smash-hits come in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMMonday, June 9, 2025
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendIn a show of two halves, the caustic standup is at her best when rolling her eyes at the weaker sex, but her post-interval crowd-counselling doesn’t quite cut it
H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, June 2, 2025
Assembly Rooms, EdinburghThe impressionist mixes modern politics with blasts from the past in a witty show that sticks to familiar ground
Topical comedy meets a trip down memory lane at Rory…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMFriday, May 30, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonChatty waiters, visiting the loo in company and overinvesting in sexual role-play are uproariously discussed alongside covers of Madonna, Britney and Dolly Parton
For fan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMMonday, May 26, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonIt’s not as big-hitting as her debut but this sophomore comedy show proves Gray is a brilliant entertainer and wind-up merchant
To say that Jordan Gray made an eye-cat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMUnderbelly Boulevard, LondonDylan MarcAurele’s musical comedy couldn’t be trashier but there’s fun to be had mixing twerking with 1400s Tuscany
The Pope vapes, Michelangelo uses Zoom, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMMonday, May 19, 2025
Richmond theatre, London Ted Lasso star’s return as his camp and bumptious northern know-it-all alter ego also makes room for more of the real Mohammed
The last time …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, May 11, 2025
Soho Theatre, LondonWhether singing or crawling cleavage-first over the shoulders of her crowd, the eccentric diva asks what an artist should do in such ominous times
‘I do think in 90 min…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMMonday, May 5, 2025
Riverside Studios, LondonHumour abounds in this Star Wars-themed cabaret, as Boba Fett bumps and grinds while Han Solo and Chewbacca share a Backstreet Boys number
Might there be an overlap …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, April 30, 2025
Dropping the droll, self-obsessed character from his early standup shows, the comic and TV star is swapping millennial irony for the sincerity of song
There was a time when comedians weren�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
Soho theatre, LondonThe drag queen’s latest intermingling of Annie Lennox covers, southern gothic literature, Judy Garland and family anecdotes is a bravura feat of idiosyncratic connectio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Underbelly Boulevard, London Eschewing the customary conjuror’s hype, Frayne’s new show follows traumatic illness and delivers high excitement in an unusually low key
What do you get whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMMonday, April 7, 2025
It’s got sex jokes, Hitler gags and endless gallows humour. The comedian once famed for being ‘ignorant-arrogant’ reveals why she’s written a show about the deaths of her stepmother …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMThursday, April 3, 2025
Brighton DomeUnderpinned by standup craftsmanship as effortless as it is meticulous, Gilligan continues to prove his gift for bringing everyday scenarios to life
There are shaggy dog stories…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMMonday, March 31, 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonAt 65, Eclair has faced down adversity, her own ego, sexism and the menopause – and always found a way to keep cheerfully telling the tales
Standup show or book…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Lafayette, LondonAn irreverent mix of erotic trapeze, penis tricks and audience participation won’t disappoint groups out for a laugh – and a gasp
If anything needs its own word, surely …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMFriday, March 14, 2025
Glee Club, GlasgowThe hugely popular ‘King of the Povvos’ is a charismatic host, but is yet to prove that he can make his online material strong enough for the stage
‘Does anyone not k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMFriday, March 7, 2025
The standup is hitting new heights of pastiche with Clementine, a riotous one-woman show about a Regency belle seeking a tailcoated beau. As the Edinburgh hit goes on tour, Minnitt explains …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, March 2, 2025
Capitol theatre, HorshamHill at 60 remains so joyful and daft that you will never stop chuckling for long
Some people’s art evolves over time. If you’re waiting for Harry Hill’s to do …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AM 
