Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Komedia, BrightonOutrageous comedy, self-glamorising songs and self-ironic ridiculousness in abundance from a comic with a sharp sense of her own daftness
You mellow with age, they say. So w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe Ohio comic takes us on her narcissistic ‘therapy journey’ including ridiculous songs, played with a wickedly straight bat
Patti Harrison’s last London show, sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMThursday, January 26, 2023
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonThe standup comedian may have lost some of the gloss on his reputation after nearly destroying himself with drugs, but his good cheer remains in place
‘If you’v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMWednesday, January 25, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe Irish-Italian comic, nominated for best newcomer at the Edinburgh fringe, delivers his show with a light touch and ample self-irony
It is exciting to encounter a youn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMThursday, January 19, 2023
Soho theatre, LondonThe sketch trio throw a lot into their screwball adventure, from pagan festivals to alien apocalypse, but every gag pays off
With the Delightful Sausage’s recent show,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
The disabled Mexican-American scooped best newcomer at Edinburgh with her scathing send-up of identity politics. But can she really wring some laughs out of the end of the world?
It would be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSunday, January 15, 2023
Bloomsbury Theatre, LondonNo one rages against life and the world better than Brister, but the comic is too good to be confined by her furious persona
Her touring show is called The Optimist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AMMonday, January 9, 2023
Soho theatre, London The sparkling Aussie brings their award-winning Melbourne comedy festival show to the UK
When Frankie McNair started taking comedy seriously, they tell us, it got boring…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, January 4, 2023
Hampstead theatre, LondonAlexis Michalik’s time-hopping French hit about the history of stage magic is a diverting jeu d’esprit but there isn’t much to see once you look past the misdi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMMonday, January 2, 2023
The Welsh standup used to direct his fury at service stations, baked potatoes and the tog-rating of duvets. Now he’s tackling anxiety, infertility – and his own battle with the cancer th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMFriday, December 30, 2022
The US comedy sensation is making up for lost time after Covid with a new show – still self-obsessed, but ‘a bit darker’ – and an opportunity for us to observe a quintessentially mil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMMonday, December 26, 2022
Danny Boyle’s Matrix-inspired spectacular opens in Manchester, Succession star Brian Cox returns to the stage and standups Maisie Adam, Guz Khan and Catherine Cohen are on tour
More from t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMSaturday, December 17, 2022
From dazzling comic debuts at the Edinburgh fringe to occult sketches, soul-searching standup and deeply strange revelations, it was a top year for laughing matters
• More on the best cult…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, December 16, 2022
Apollo theatre, LondonThe veteran illusionist outdoes himself with an evening of bewildering trickery that holds a mirror to our deepest feelings
Having followed his stage work for years, I …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, December 15, 2022
London PalladiumDawn French, Julian Clary and Alexandra Burke join an animatronic giant with a vast beanstalk in an innuendo-heavy, story-light show
Pantos are usually cheap and cheerful, so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonWith his Scandi-nowhere accent and cool-dude aspirations, Archie Henderson’s comic character is improbable, clever and very funny
‘I’m in control,” sings Jazz Emu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, December 12, 2022
Matthew Holness’s fictional horror author is on the road reading from his novel – prepare to be terrified at the tills while we dream of his full return to the stage
When is a show not a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, December 9, 2022
Once an under-the-radar live comedy jewel, Mohammed’s alter-ego impresario is hogging the spotlight in two new stage shows. Is the character destined for TV?
Any assessment of the best cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Apollo, ManchesterThere’s ample room in comedy to tease at woke over-earnestness but this weak and boorish set fails to engage
Ricky Gervais gives us a little lecture after curtain call to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, December 2, 2022
Manchester ArenaAfter 12 years away from the stage, the slimmed-down entertainer is more unapologetically nostalgic than ever
No hotcake ever sold in greater quantity than tickets for Peter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonEven when the grouchy wannabe game-show host’s set is buffering he still delivers a winning formula of hi-tech comedy and twisty jokes
In Danger Money, we find Mat Ewin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMMonday, November 28, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonA streetwise Jack sells his cow for a tin of baked beans in this sugar rush of a show, which is underpinned with an anti-greed moral about the collective good
Your e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMThursday, November 24, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonThe tale of two ‘mucky northern oiks’ on a quest for success is less important than the joyful jokes, backchat and smutty puns en route
The barely realised comic play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, November 18, 2022
Dorking HallsPlayful material about Pascoe’s life on the celebrity B-list is eclipsed by a heartfelt second act focused on private truths about new motherhood
Sara Pascoe isn’t the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonAfter his show was pulled from the Edinburgh fringe, the comic continues his efforts to outrage, resulting in deep discomfort as well as bleak brilliance
“Winner …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
Cambridge JunctionThe political comedian’s new touring show takes on Liz Truss and the Tories but too often swaps subtlety for stridency
Mark Thomas’s last show drew on his lifetime of p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSunday, November 13, 2022
Palace theatre, SouthendThe manic 35-year-old riffs on pregnancy, childbirth and how she can make the world a less sexist place for her 10-month-old daughter
The comedian reconsidering her l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, November 11, 2022
The standup is returning to the stage to welcome us back into his lovably parochial world. But will we ever know the man behind the homely persona?
It can’t be easy to become the nation’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Graham Fellows’ film Father Earth records the Sheffield comedian’s trip to Orkney with his dad – and a bid to step out of his alter ego’s shadow
When I last saw Graham Fellows in cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMSunday, November 6, 2022
The Vaults, London Slapdash daftness propels Sleeping Trees’ glam mashup of a Christmas show, though more risk-taking would summon the magic to really fly
Sleeping Trees are known for thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonLyons raises her personal demons so she can publicly refuse to play by their rules in this complex comedy-horror crossover
The eye-popping final sequence of Elf Lyons’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM 
