Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Assembly George Square, EdinburghFrom sperm selection to sexual anthropology to dating woes, a super-entertaining Pascoe gets personalSara Pascoe has been looking at history's epic romances,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe US comic has charisma and craft but reinforces gender stereotypes with cartoonish vigour in a set that falls flatIliza Shlesinger raised hackles last summer w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe laidback raconteur gets political and personal with riffs on everything from the US vice-president to PG Tips‘I don’t believe people’s joy,” says Marc …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMMonday, April 16, 2018
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe south Londoner’s hit character sketches transfer smoothly from social media to the comedy club in this crowd-pleasing showIt’s been a big year for sou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSunday, April 15, 2018
Just a month before their first child is due, the standup couple are doing a show together – seeking the audience’s parenting tips“It’s mad,” says Josie Long, “but it feels like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonAllen’s amiable routines about gay and working-class stereotyping foreground his abundant skills as a raconteurIf Tom Allen weren’t already hosting a primetime Saturd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMAs Maxine Peake takes the mic to play a club comic in Funny Cow, here are five movies that capture the lacerating, soul-baring world of live comedyThere’s something so intimate, exposing a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMMonday, April 2, 2018
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThe naturally funny panel-show regular inhabits a small world, but he makes those narrow horizons teem with possibility and comic lifeWhen Mark Thomas engages …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:56AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonHis new show Teztify is a jumble of familiar, subversive and incongruous humour, put it all pulls together for a powerful denouementTez Ilyas’s touring show Teztify beg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, March 25, 2018
Nottingham ArenaMcIntyre’s endearing observations and self-mockery remain, but there’s an inescapable sense of deja vu in a show that breaks no new groundMichael McIntyre’s Big World T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:41AMFriday, March 23, 2018
Leicester Square theatre, London The celebrated standup mines her self-doubt and general bafflement with life in a fine hour of extreme idiosyncrasyThe sense of event is palpable at Leiceste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
Soho theatre, London The standup critiques virtue-signalling modern culture in a thoughtful set argued with a light touch‘Do you guys remember truth?” Sara Schaefer is over from America …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Dodd, who has died aged 90, was a force of nature – a cheeky master of the one-liner who spread happiness in shows that lasted until the small hoursKen Dodd, who has died aged 90, was quit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:22AMSunday, March 4, 2018
New Zealand’s ‘fourth most popular folk-parody act’ are on a sold-out arena tour. Is there a shrewdness behind the duo’s laidback shtick?Few comedians ever play London’s O2 Arena a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThursday, March 1, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonBret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement return with hilarious dialogue and new songs that easily scale the dizzy heights of their best workWe knew months ago that Flight of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
The Old Market, BrightonThere’s no shortage of self-depreciating chatter as the comic looks back on a life of globetrotting in his touring show‘I’m going to talk about my holidays, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMFriday, February 23, 2018
Ronnie Scott’s, LondonThe standup and singer has stellar personality, and a few neat lines, but not all of her material lands with a London audience“If I looked at a crib sheet that much…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendBailey’s honest enthusiasm for the marginal, the overlooked and the seldom juxtaposed is delightfulMore than three decades into his career, Bill Bailey’s shows m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMCited as one of the all-time great standup sets, Leary’s show both hasn’t aged well and has never been more topical‘I’m an asshole,” sings Denis Leary in a signature number at the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:56AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonShortlisted for best newcomer at the Edinburgh festival, Pattison delivers a drolly direct account of an annus horribilisYou may not associate live comedy with tales of l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonThe Edinburgh award-nominated standup develops a cheery rapport with the audience in this promising first showIf you want tragicomedy that cuts deep – or, for that matt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Marlowe theatre, CanterburyThe comic’s latest show is bursting with gags about bodily functions but reveals precious little about Millican herselfSarah Millican doesn’t appear much in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMMonday, January 15, 2018
Soho theatre, London Pop legends in their own minds, this swaggering five-piece retool Whitney and Beyoncé songs into sharp-clawed attacks on Trump and IslamThe conceit of drag girlband Den…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, January 12, 2018
Manchester ArenaWhat was billed as a more confessional, reflective show actually finds Rock on familiar ground, as he surveys contemporary America and finds it wanting In the US and elsewher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:28AMThursday, January 11, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonThe drudgery of bureaucracy is sent up with great expressivity, loose-limbed flair and a heightened sense of the ridiculousAbsurdist takes on the office environment are a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonAn infinite number of monkeys, Pavlov’s dogs and Cartesian thought are gleefully debunked in a jaunty and refreshingly intelligent showAt the start of his comedy career…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Her childhood in care, her mother’s heroin addiction, her days as a sex worker … Bolton comedian Sophie Willan is turning the details of her life into dazzling standupIt’s great to hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMLeicester Square theatre, LondonThe convivial comic serves up a hotchpotch of creaking jokes, funny accents and satire – but not all his fans can stomach it‘I’ve been heckled, I’ve b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AMMonday, January 8, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonThe award-winning Aussie duo flout standup’s conventions to mine laughs from misery and nihilism. It’s certainly bold – but can you get too much of a bad thing?The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMThursday, January 4, 2018
In his Netflix shows the comic defends his right to provoke, but protests against his gags about misconduct allegations and transgender people are justifiedDave Chappelle’s first Netflix s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMTuesday, January 2, 2018
G Live, GuildfordIn his touring show The Old Man, Richardson’s peevish, mouse-that-roared routines range from loading the dishwasher to massaging his pregnant wife‘Let’s get ready to g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM 
