Comedy Reviews

Review: Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Gala 2017

Review: Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Gala 2017

The Leicester Comedy Festival has become firmly established on the UK comedy calendar.…

Review: Leeds Festival 2016

Review: Leeds Festival 2016

"So, what's the answer to the obvious question - is attending Leeds Festival a good way to see comedy?"…

Review: Latitude Festival 2016

Review: Latitude Festival 2016

While the middle-class, artsy nature of the festival often comes in for some stick (take a drink every time a comedian mentions it and chances are you won't remember the weekend at all) their comedy line-up is utterly unparalleled by any other festival in the country. …

Review: Rob Delaney, Meat

Review: Rob Delaney, Meat

"For all the smut, chaos and flippancy Delaney attributes to his life, there's little fat on Meat and it's an impressively choice, juicy cut from his disordered, animalistic existence." …

Review: Romesh Ranganathan, Irrational

Review: Romesh Ranganathan, Irrational

No other comic seethingly spits the insult “prick!” at such a wide spread of deserving and not so-deserving targets.…

Review: UK Pun Championships, Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival

Review: UK Pun Championships, Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival

Noun: the use of words or phrases to exploit ambiguities and innuendos in their meaning, usually for humorous effect; a play on words.…

Review: UK Comics Boxing, Fight for Kian, Blyth Sports Centre

Review: UK Comics Boxing, Fight for Kian, Blyth Sports Centre

The event attracted headline names and touring acts, completely selling out the 800-seater arena at Blyth Sports Centre - surely making it one of the biggest ever independent comedy events in the North East.…

Review: The Order Of The Silly Billies, Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle

Review: The Order Of The Silly Billies, Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle

"Endearingly shambolic, it's as much League of Gentleman as it is Monty Python, with its peculiar marriage of the puerile and the grotesque, the asinine and the tragic."…

Review: Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show 2016

Review: Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show 2016

"For an initiative that started as a student coursework project, the Leicester Comedy Festival has come a long way since it began in 1994."…

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