Monday, June 25, 2018
The whip-smart comic talks about mocking Piers Morgan and Donald Trump, mixing scorn with good cheer and moving from songs to satire‘Determined cheerfulness is something I happen to do ver…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, June 24, 2018
Underbelly, South Bank, LondonThe Londoner turned US Daily Show star shows herself more clown than commentator as she unpicks British race relations and Anglo-Nigerian manners Last month, UK…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Leicester Square theatre, LondonRoseanne Barr's London gig starts with a video of her in her closet, choosing a frock. The set that follows suggests that, comedically speaking, she no longer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMFriday, June 8, 2018
Tron, EdinburghAway from the big three venues, the wildest comedian in Edinburgh is playing for just six days. Doug Stanhope is performing his first European gigs as part of the Tron's Velve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMLeicester Square theatre, LondonTonight sees bilious US comic Doug Stanhope at his best and worst. When his scorn and loathing is intelligently applied, he tears away the veil of socialised …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMBrixton Academy, LondonOne of the sharpest minds and loosest cannons in comedy is back with material about rape, race and #MeToo“Is it wrong to use racism to try and stop gang rape?” Ame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonUys delivers an engaging memoir about his life, from 1940s Cape Town to a regime-mocking drag actPart memoir, part nostalgia trip for white South Africans, Pieter-Dirk Uy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
The 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 himselfIt's a powderkeg issue in the world of com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMSunday, May 20, 2018
Apparently US comedy is so powerful and pervasive that people all over the world want to, and can, fit its template. I have some problems with thatIs the US a shining city upon a hill for co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMO2 Arena, LondonThe royal couple get a cheerful ribbing from the Daily Show host in a set that’s a delight – even to huffy republicansWhat a gift to Trevor Noah that his one-off UK date …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMBrighton DomeAward-winning standup serves up ruthless self-mockery in a show that is playful and pugnacious in equal measureLying, says Bridget Christie, has been tainted by association with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMAfter their YouTube video went viral, the comedy duo are expanding their Stop Ukip tour. But do they have anything new to say about Nigel Farage's party?• Stewart Lee: a vision of life und…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSaturday, May 19, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonIn her new show Mistress and Misfit the standup delivers droll tales, gasp-inducing skits and a Georgian history lessonMistress and Misfit, Shappi Khorsandi’s latest se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, May 17, 2018
Soho theatre, LondonIn her show One-Seventeen, the Australian comedian grapples with big ideas but these absorbing stories don’t fully connectIn a recent trilogy of shows, Sarah Kendall to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Comedian Alexei Sayle got heckled by his 90-year-old mother, who calls his memoirs 'a pack of lies', so it's no mystery where he gets his tireless revolutionary fury fromAlexei Say…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMMonday, April 30, 2018
Cliffs Pavilion, SouthendO Briain mines his public status, midlife hypochondria and the march of technology for his new show Voice of ReasonPlymouth, Dubai, Oslo – the locations of three c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMHer caustic White House correspondents’ dinner speech will be no shock for fans of the former Daily Show contributorWhen Michelle Wolf arrived at the Edinburgh festival in 2016 she was the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, April 29, 2018
The Hawth, CrawleyThe shock-haired master of wordplay unearths some terrific one-liners in a comedy quest to revive his archaeology careerAudiences come to Milton Jones for one thing, and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMWednesday, 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 03:22AM 
