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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 begin…
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 Tour, i…
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…
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 to d…
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 quite …
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 and fewer s…
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…
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, then I'm …
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 dur…
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 march…
Cited 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 start of N…
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…
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 matter…
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 the ta…
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…