Reviews

Review: Sketch Off Final 2023, Leicester Square Theatre
I guess April Fools Day was a pretty good day to have this year's annual Sketch Off Final, brilliantly hosted by waspish thespian Anna Mann (alias Colin Hoult). Though maybe they need to think of a... more
Review: Musical Comedy Awards, Bloomsbury Theatre
History was made at the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards final this year. For the first time there were more women than men competing for the prestigious trophy at the Bloomsbury Theatre. A... more
Review: Ted Lasso, Apple TV+
Series three of Ted Lasso kicks off in style with AFC Richmond being predicted to come bottom of the league in the new season. What makes it even worse is that their former employee, Nate (Nick... more
Happy Valley's James Norton To Star In BBC Comedy Jerk
If you became hooked on James Norton when he was in Happy Valley tune in to the new series of Jerk where he is one of the big name signings for the third series starring Tim Renkow as a hapless anti-... more
Streaming: A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou, Netflix
Jamie Demetriou already has his place in the comedy pantheon of greats with three series of the Bafta-winning Stath Lets Flats under his belt. He now gets his own sketch show special on Netflix which... more
TV: Funny Woman, Sky Max – Interview With Gemma Arterton
When I first read that Sky was making a series about a woman fighting sexism in the world of comedy, I expected to see an English version of the award-winning The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, which charted... more
TV Review: Deep Fake: Neighbour Wars, ITVX
There has been a lot of talk lately about AI deep fakes making us wonder if the news is real so it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a comedic use for the new technology. For... more
TV Review: Everyone Else Burns, C4
I'd only recently watched post-apocalyptic drama The Last Of Us when I watched Everyone Else Burns and my first thought was, here we go again, you wait ages for something about the destruction of... more
Theatre Review: The Unfriend, Criterion Theatre
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have talked recently of putting their TV series Inside No 9 onstage. And in a way they've done it here, if they decided to do their own take on the classic... more
Review: A Christmas Carol-ish...By Mr Swallow, Soho Theatre
Nick Mohammed is best known these days as Nate in the award-garlanded soccer comedy Ted Lasso. But before his football fame kicked off he regularly performed in comic plays as Mr Swallow, a dweeby,... more
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