I’ve just realised why so many comedians hate Live at the Apollo. There are a heck of a lot of comedians out there who haven’t been asked to appear on the show. Never mind a woman scorned, there is... more
Reviews
Sitcoms have a habit of swerving off in a direction you can’t necessarily predict from the first episode. That was definitely with the case of Detectorists, which preceded Puppy Love in the same slot... more
Just when you think the mockumentary genre has been done to death along comes What We Do In The Shadows – a mockumentary about the undead. WWDITS is a fly-on-the-wall mock doc about a group of... more
Ever since The Thick Of It there has been a trend for smartarse, slightly superior sitcoms without laugh tracks to tell you when to giggle. W1A was a smartarse sitcom skewering the BBC, while Getting... more
Richard Herring is back with an autumn run of podcasts recorded, as the title gives away, at the Leicester Square Theatre. So far he has interviewed Mark Gatiss, Brendon Burns and James Acaster, but... more
I have watched shows from some strange places in the past, but this was the first time I had to watch the first ten minutes through a crack in the door. Having arrived one minute late for Twisted... more
After Jon Richardson and his wingman Matt Forde going in search of the meaning of life on C4 recently, Micky Flanagan teams up with his mate, brickie Sean Lynch, for his own comedy travelogue about,... more
Like Robin Ince I was one of those teenagers who devoured Herbert Van Thal’s Pan Book of Horror Stories series. I can still vividly recall the one about the man trapped in a sewer who has to chew his... more
Celia Pacquola’s show certainly starts with a bang. Well, a bang of the drums anyway. Her entry music is Diana Ross’s I’m Coming Out and the exuberant, bouncy rhythm sets the tone for the next hour.... more
Matt Berry really could keep you hooked by reading the telephone directory. The owner of that distinctive syrupy, lubricious, posh James Mason bellow returns for the second series of Toast of London... more
