The first thing to say is that Sarah Silverman’s Netflix special is longer than her gig at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2008. For live comedy fans in England Silverman is arguably most famous for her... more
Reviews
If the idea of The Old Comedian of the Year final conjures up images of Zimmer frames and senior moments nothing could be further from the truth. You only need to be 35 to enter, so I’ll be eligible... more
If there is a crisis on the live circuit as I've heard, nobody has told Knock2bag. Their various clubs around the capital have been doing the business for ten years and last night's show in their... more
The end of the first series of Aziz Ansari’s Master Of None saw excitable lover of life Dev (Ansari) flying to Italy to learn how to make pasta. We catch up with him in the first episode of the... more
To paraphrase a famous sketch, nobody was expecting Tim Westwood. Or Fatboy Slim. Or even Tony Blackburn. John Cleese Presents was trailed as Cleese making his debut as a radio DJ but given that this... more
Unless you’ve been cryogenically frozen recently* you must have seen the images of Julian Barratt from Mindhorn. Either doing a high-kicking stunt or wearing an eye-patch. These images are amusing... more
When the cast was announced for this West End revival of Christopher Hampton’s play set in the world of academia I thought it was right up my street. Three of my favourite sitcom actors, Matt Berry,... more
Ayesha Hazarika certainly picked a good day to open the Soho run of her latest show, State of the Nation. The former adviser to Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman picked the day the snap election was... more
The Laugharne Weekend has been going for ten years and I think I’ve attempted to go for at least the last five. One year I’d even packed the car and then I looked at the weather forecast and it was... more
I don’t really know why but I’d slightly drifted away from Catastrophe during this series. It was still one of the best things on TV but maybe it had started off too well and I was worried it couldn'... more
