Comedy Reviews

Edinburgh Fringe review: Glenn Moore, Nephew to Three Gorgeous Uncles

Edinburgh Fringe review: Glenn Moore, Nephew to Three Gorgeous Uncles

"Glenn Moore’s forty-five minutes are heavy with punchlines and proper gags; but his relaxed anecdotal style is an effectively low-key foil to what could end up being a show that bashes you about the head with jokes."…

Edinburgh Fringe review: Raymond Mearns Is Growing Old Disgracefully

Edinburgh Fringe review: Raymond Mearns Is Growing Old Disgracefully

"While Raymond Mearns was rewarded with a full house on the night, the appreciative audience were the big winners."…

Review: Barnard Castle Comedy Festival 2015

Review: Barnard Castle Comedy Festival 2015

"Some people said you couldn't have a comedy festival in Barnard Castle; well they've all got red faces now."…

Latitude Festival comedy review: Pierre Novellie

Latitude Festival comedy review: Pierre Novellie

Somewhere recently I read Pierre Novellie described as ‘a great big bear of a comedian’, which… is probably fairly accurate.…

Latitude Festival comedy review: The Bird

Latitude Festival comedy review: The Bird

With pleasingly absurd comedian Stuart Laws compering the Literature tent on Sunday, the Film and Music arena played host to Laws' production company Turtle Canyon’s short film, the darkly comic The Bird, starring Julia Davis.…

Latitude Festival comedy review: Jason Byrne

Latitude Festival comedy review: Jason Byrne

Jason Byrne bulleted through a visual gag-heavy forty five minute set, that featured a solid fifteen minutes with five amazingly precocious children, to an audience that no longer seemed to care how hot or dusty they were, as long as they were laughing: which they very much were.…

Latitude Festival comedy review: Stuart Bowden, Before Us

Latitude Festival comedy review: Stuart Bowden, Before Us

Stuart Bowden’s Before Us in the Cabaret tent was an immensely buoying, interactive story-telling mini-adventure of an angsty, lonely, last-of-his-species creature (clad in a ruched sleeping bag frock and – apparently – not much else). …

Latitude Festival comedy review: Sexy American Girl Cousins

Latitude Festival comedy review: Sexy American Girl Cousins

It’s an alternately painfully awkward, and bizarre, gauche cocktail of cod-Eastern European accents and stars and stripes: ‘…New York, Australia – we’re sexy in all fifty states, baby!’…

Latitude Festival comedy review: Gein’s Family Giftshop, Volume II

Latitude Festival comedy review: Gein’s Family Giftshop, Volume II

Gein’s Family Giftshop open their new hour of sketches at Latitude with a smoking slow-motion set piece involving cigarette flicking and sexual-implicit body flexes.…

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