Friday, July 13, 2018
Leicester Square theatre, LondonWith his expert delivery, the US standup can lead even unpromising and overfamiliar material to giddy heights of comic dismayJim Gaffigan is touring the world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2018
Our roundup of the week's comedy sees scrappy statements from Sarah Millican and Stewart Lee, while Peter Kay has mooted a possible return of Phoenix NightsThe week's comedy news divides nea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe standup's new show, ostensibly about class in Britain, is often amusing, very likable but stubbornly middle-of-the-roadThere is so much to say about class in Br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
Orchard, DartfordMoran shows off his highly quotable brand of crackpot lyricism in routines about midlife travails, hipster scorn and feeling like a 'jelly baby with money'Most standups ease…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Superstar standups, daring dance, Brexit cabaret and a Bon Jovi musical … Dive into our guide to some of the shows at the world's biggest arts festivalGilded Balloon Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM[SHARE]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 very …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 02:42AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 02:48PM[SHARE]Leicester 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 12:33PM[SHARE]Brixton 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?" America…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 09:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 11:33AM[SHARE]O2 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 coin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Brighton 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 08:12AM[SHARE]After 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 under…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 set,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 told…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 12:42AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM[SHARE]Her 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 l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 01:04PM[SHARE]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 10:24AM[SHARE]Queen 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 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Maron. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 south L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 the right th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Saturday n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AM[SHARE]As 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 and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 …
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