Wednesday, 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 05:24PMMonday, October 31, 2022
Milton Keynes theatreWhile not quite reaching previously attained heights of absurdity, the comic still pulls off a successful stream of nonsense
It’s been a decade of tumultuous change si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe comedian is as spontaneous as ever in this unadorned show featuring a one-ghost campaign to rewild the sanitised customs of All Hallows Eve
‘Just a very lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
He breezed into the Edinburgh fringe late with just half a show – and won the ‘Oscar of comedy’. In his first ever face-to-face interview, the eccentric Aussie standup reveals what’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Farnham Maltings, Surrey The Portsmouth native is good company, cheerfully goofing around for our entertainment, but the set feels one draft short of its full potential
New baby. Spiking anx…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMSunday, October 23, 2022
O2 Arena, London The controversial US podcaster finds fertile material challenging society’s sensitivities – yet while his standup takes pains to short-circuit offence, fear of emasculat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonRubina Pabani and Poppy Jay hop between banter, song and comedy skits in a show with a solid emotional and political core
You get a particular type of laughter, undergird…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
When his show was pulled this summer over reports of nudity, sexism and racism, it caused a furore. In his first major interview since, the comedian explains why he will never tone down his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMSunday, October 16, 2022
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonFine crowd-work, choice joke-writing and a standout set-piece about the comedian’s Kafkaesque efforts to trace his birth parents
We have Covid to thank for So Whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMFriday, October 14, 2022
Fierce festival, BirminghamThis immersive cabaret invites you into a world of ‘goblin core’, drag ogres and live art happenings
Birmingham’s Fierce festival opened this week with a com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMThursday, October 13, 2022
Hackney Empire, LondonThe crossword-setting comic has lost none of his zest as he noodles in the nooks and deep-dives into the details
Struggling for comedy work under lockdown, Dave Gorman …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
The hotly tipped comic was the talk of Edinburgh with his blistering hour of hilariously hollow egomania – and audiences haven’t a clue whether to pity or deplore him
UK standup has a ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMFriday, October 7, 2022
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe American comedian goes straight for the jugular in a fearlessly off-colour and skilfully constructed show
‘Oh, your queen died,” says Michelle Wolf, f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Wembley Arena, LondonThe standup returns to the UK with a set on morality, sex and religion that often excels but also stalls with casual misanthropy
The last time Louis CK performed major U…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
NetflixThe campaigning US satirist covers politics, parenthood and ‘the jurisprudence of jokes’ in a brash set delivered with major brio
You can’t accuse Hasan Minhaj of not packing en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMMonday, October 3, 2022
Soho theatre, London A brief but brazen set by the HBO series co-star shows a talent in full control of her own brand of scattershot comedy
Emmy Award-nominated for playing a standup comedia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMThursday, September 29, 2022
Old Market, Brighton A thoroughly likable autobiographical show, comparing Suttie’s domestic midlife and her past daredevilry, hits the comic jackpot with its songs
When Isy Suttie was a g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Leicester Square theatre, LondonLess richly structured than his best work, this looser-limbed evening has given the comic wing-spreading room to experiment
“Pure. Simple. Classic.” That…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup was planning an altogether sillier show, but life got in the way, resulting in a set that spins grief and loss into an uproarious hour
Before Covid, and in co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMSoho theatre, LondonThe notorious comic and performance artist explores loneliness and the human/animal divide in an intricately assembled scrapbook show
It’s taken Kim Noble seven years t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
In Lullaby for Scavengers, the no-holds-barred performance artist returns to outfox and outrage audiences. He talks about trying to snog his mother, bathing with maggots and being an ‘old …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMSunday, September 18, 2022
New theatre, OxfordFrench heaps detail upon self-abasing detail as she shares hugely engaging stories from her 40-year career
It’s called semantic satiation, when you say a word so many ti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMMonday, September 5, 2022
Shows like Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg exist to make politicians seem upright and substantial. Lycett rightly pointed out that some of them are not
“Memo: don’t put comedians on Ques…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:55AMSunday, September 4, 2022
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThe Australian physical comedian conjures up a career for himself as a professional spear-thrower in this wacky if uneven show
There is a distinguished, if n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMFriday, September 2, 2022
M&S Bank Arena, LiverpoolThey are arguably the two greatest US standups of their generation – and both topical for not always lovely reasons. Could this double-whammy possibly live up …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM 
