Friday, October 2, 2015
Sam Simmons: Spaghetti For Breakfast | Mark Thomas: Trespass | Comedy CoupletsSometimes, the Edinburgh comedy award goes to an emerging talent who is clearly destined for great things. At ot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:25AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Doug Stanhope | Tom Parry: Yellow T-Shirt | Frisky & Mannish: Just Too Much“I’m Doug Stanhope, and that’s why I drink.” Regular watchers of Weekly Wipe will already be familiar w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
Justin Moorhouse: Destiny Calling | Mae Martin: Us | Chris Ramsey: All Growed UpFor all the excitement that avant garde performers who push back the boundaries of stand-up generate for comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMFriday, September 11, 2015
Tez Ilyas | Elis James | The Jeremy Corbyn NightHe may not have made it on to any of the award shortlists, but Tez Ilyas’s debut Edinburgh festival fringe hour was one of this year’s mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMFriday, September 4, 2015
Stand Up 4 Stand Up | Adam Hess | John GordilloGiven the vast numbers of people living in terrible situations across the nation, you might find it hard to get worked up about the plight of c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMFriday, August 28, 2015
Ivo Graham | Joseph Morpugo | The PinAs Ivo Graham acknowledges in the course of his confidently performed and laughter-rich show, he has a few obstacles when getting an audience to like him…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Sheeps Skewer The News | Nish Kumar | Richard GaddYou don’t get much satire on TV these days, and what there is tends to be the same observations we’ve heard a million times before, audi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AMFriday, August 14, 2015
James Acaster | Kieran Hodgson | Jena FriedmanThe overwhelming majority of comedians at the fringe would give anything to get nominated for the supposedly all-important Edinburgh comedy awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Critics weren’t ready for Michael Che’s street-smarts two years ago. But now the New York stand-up is a Saturday Night Live star and he’s come back for moreTwo years ago, New York-born…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMSarah Callaghan | Julian Deane | Mawaan Rizwan | Corey White | Phil Jerrod | Kevin JThere’s nothing softly softly about the approach of Sarah Callaghan. An early twentysomething Londoner, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, July 31, 2015
Limmy: Daft Wee Stories | The Comedy Grotto All-Day Edinburgh Preview Special | Josh Widdicombe: Work In ProgressIt might not be the biggest mistake the BBC has made in recent years, but not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMFriday, July 24, 2015
Stand Up For Satire | Ian Smith | Susan Harrison Presents Jennie Benton WordsmithWe used to be good at satire here in the UK. But nowadays it’s hard to imagine us ever coming up with a hom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, July 17, 2015
Arj Baker | Iain Stirling | Nick RevellEven comedy aficionados know Arj Barker better for his appearances in cult comedy series Flight Of The Conchords than for his solo stand-up work. Yet B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Balham Comedy Festival | Rob Beckett | Glenn WoolFor all the ballyhoo that surrounds big shows at the Hammersmith Apollo and O2, the real heart of London’s comedy scene lies in a relativel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMFriday, July 3, 2015
Dave Chappelle | Bristol Comedy Garden | Steen RaskopoulosDave Chappelle is probably most famous for being the comedian who had everything and gave it all away. As the star of his own Chappe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMFriday, June 26, 2015
Robin Ince | Pierre Novellie | John-Luke RobertsOver the last decade, Robin Ince has become increasingly interested in things other than the stand-up that originally made his name. He’s be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:41AMFriday, June 19, 2015
Paul Sinha | Kevin Bridges | Zoe LyonsComedians get hired to do all sorts of unlikely jobs these days. Paul Sinha alternates his nocturnal stand-up career with a daytime gig on ITV’s The C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AMFriday, June 12, 2015
Will Franken | David Trent | Harriet KemsleyBeing compared to the late Robin Williams might not seem like the hippest of accolades, but if you can shift from your mind the image of umpteen s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14AMFriday, June 5, 2015
Luisa Omielan | Hilarity charity gala | Max And IvanA few years ago, Luisa Omielan was an almost completely unknown comic on the London circuit. Then her debut full-length show What Would Be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13AMFriday, May 29, 2015
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How do you make the writer of Crime and Punishment funny? The comedian’s adaptation of short story The Crocodile for this year’s Manchester international festival does just that – and,…
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