Friday, October 12, 2018
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffBrydon beats a well-trodden path through crowd work, gags about middle-aged decline and pitch-perfect impressions“Some people have said this show is more ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMThursday, October 11, 2018
Birmingham Symphony HallThe veteran comic’s enduring ability to captivate a crowd saves a best-of evening that occasionally descends into tediumThey’re a real pop-will-eat-itself phenome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
After her standup success and podcast about death, the comic’s next step was obvious: starring in a cancer-ward romcom It wasn’t, I assume, the toughest decision in the history of castin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, October 8, 2018
The US comic is cynical about competitive virtue-signalling in a show that doesn’t directly respond to allegations against him but is full of friction What happens to men accused of sexual…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMFriday, October 5, 2018
Cambridge Arts theatreAdrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer write and star in a Beckettian comedy about two past-it thesps making a sci-fi film on the edge of a volcanoOnce they were The Young O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMThursday, October 4, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonThe Mash Report host unleashes a high-octane, self-mocking political show brimming with exasperation and angerYou can tell it’s been two years since Nish Kumar’s last…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMMonday, October 1, 2018
In Oh Come On, David Cross matches vulgarity with vulgarity but it’s not the only way to mock a political horror showI’m watching David Cross, but I can’t help thinking about Brett Kav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonWith an abundance of eyebrow-raising anecdotes about outrageous social faux pas, the standup is terrific companyThere was louder buzz around Lou Sanders’ Edinburgh frin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
The former head of BBC comedy claims catchphrases are out of fashion. But as Corporal Jones might say, ‘Don’t panic!’ There’s life in sloganeering yet Catchphrase comedy is a dying a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMThursday, September 13, 2018
Esposito’s last show, Rape Jokes, was hailed as part of a new queer-friendly, woke brand of comedy for the #MeToo era. How does she follow it up?When Hannah Gadsby’s show Nanette went su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Hammersmith Apollo, London The 31-year-old breathes new life into well-worn observational comedy in a masterful show that scorns pretensionKevin Bridges is in his 30s now, a time when fear o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMMonday, August 27, 2018
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh In a spirited Edinburgh debut, the daughter of a former deputy PM of Russia tells her father’s fascinating storyPlenty of comics get good material from their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe LGBTQ+ standup twists gender into new shapes in a fringe debut that feels like a great intro to a fresh comic personalityShould we be disowning words like �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, August 26, 2018
Sunderland Empire Exhilarating new material joins favourite vintage sketches as Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton bring their chilling creations to life again on tourTV tie-i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
The Kiwi standup thoroughly deserves her success with an uproarious, emotionally intimate and feminist show With the triumph of Rose Matafeo in this year’s Edinburgh Comedy awards, a sub-p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMAssembly Checkpoint, EdinburghDean is a standup with the popular touch and an easy swing to his style. Just don’t go expecting anything high-conceptWednesday was a day of ups and downs for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMFriday, August 24, 2018
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThe star revisits his success as a singer and soap-star to find out whether he is older and wiser, or just olderWhat an odd confection this touring show by J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMJust the Tonic @ The Tron, EdinburghSupposedly the story of his attempt to go on a mission to Mars, Moore’s set is actually a string of high-quality jokes Comedy is not just about jokes, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom gags about vintage frocks to her toilet roll-hoarding mother-in-law, Ward is endearing, if under-poweredNot every Edinburgh comedy set needs a theme, story…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMBritain’s exit from the EU is quicksand for artists as well as politicians. This year, it’s inspired polemical cabaret and a drama that goes nowhere fastThe Edinburgh fringe’s best res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMWednesday, August 22, 2018
Assembly George Square, EdinburghSketch duo Celeste Dring and Freya Parker are unstoppable in an outrageous and irreverent hour for ‘ladies and predators’‘Good afternoon, ladies and pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMFelicity Ward, Alex Edelman, Glenn Moore, Larry Dean and Kieran Hodgson also among standups in the running for £10,000 main prize – but the list has some striking omissions The shortlist …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
He’s been derided by Daniel Kitson, shamed by Stewart Lee – and now our comedy critic has been depicted having his brains blown out by Sam Campbell. Just as well he can take a jokeI can …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:32PMAssembly George Square, EdinburghA parade of daft characters and killer gags illustrate Roberts’ credo that absurdism reflects the chaos of being aliveLeft-field standup John-Luke Roberts …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMAssembly, George Square, EdinburghIn a set called Produced by John Cleese, the Python’s daughter shares the bill with political standup Steve HofstetterHaving eschewed nepotism in the past…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMMonday, August 20, 2018
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghThe Aussie standup ditches blithe character-comedy for a brave show that is often more sad than funnyNo one who’s seen the Aussie act Steen Raskopoulos would a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith its chummy chat and Strictly gossip, this fringe show is like being force-fed pages of OK! magazineHis show is called Confessions and promises “candid ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMSunday, August 19, 2018
Just the Tonic at the Mash House, EdinburghArtistry and geekery combine in a set that shows off Ewins’ clever video editing and pranksterish sense of funBrexit. #MeToo. Editing a newspaper…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMStand Comedy Club, EdinburghIn his new show Dr Cosmos, Moran ranges across religion, politics, cat personalities and TV ads for shampooElsewhere on the fringe, twentysomething tyros will hur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMFriday, August 17, 2018
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn Just for Us, the smooth-talking and apparently fearless Bostonian standup recounts gatecrashing a white supremacist gathering in New YorkA young Jewish guy g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, August 16, 2018
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTerrific skits and inventive gags mean the laughs come thick and fast in a delightful new hour from the sketch duoCleverness comes as standard from sketch duo t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM 
