There is powerpoint presentation in comedy and then there is Josh Sharp. While the likes of Dave Gorman pepper their shows with judiciously placed clips and slides, American performer Sharp explains... more
Reviews
Rob Beckett has talked recently about how he is going to take a break from stand-up for a while to focus more on bringing up his two children and letting his wife Lou have more of a career, having... more
After the success of more conventional sitcom Derry Girls, writer Lisa McGee has taken the energy and zip of the schooldays comedy and applied it to a group of adult women along with a mystery plot... more
There’s an illuminating anecdote in Ben Elton’s autobiography What Have I Done? about Elton chatting to former PM Jim Callaghan at a Downing Street Party in the 1990s. A waiter comes along and asks... more
The Komedia New Comedy Awards in association with Comic Boom comedy club and arts journalist Victoria Nangle is one of the relative newbies when it comes to comedy competitions, but it has quickly... more
After watching new series Small Prophets I wanted to catch up on Dinosaur to compare them. Like Small Prophets, the second series of Ashley Storrie's comedy about love, autism and paleontology is... more
Just when you think the BBC is hitting an all-time low along comes Small Prophets to save the day, a programme so warm, touching and funny that it singlehandedly justifies the licence fee. Well done... more
Nerd Alert! This year’s Bristol Comedy Festival competition featured six finalists, all from the West of England area or connected to the area. While there wasn’t a specified preplanned theme to the... more
The death of David Bowie cast a shadow over 2016 but it wasn't the only gone-too-soon death of that year. Victoria Wood died on April 20. I remember receiving an embargo'd press release that morning... more
Fourteen acts made it through the heats into the final of this year's Leicester Square Theatre Comedian of the Year competition. That's a lot of fun on a Saturday afternoon and given that this is a... more
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