Comedy
Alan Davies, TouringWednesday, 14 November 2012
Alan Davies used to be a regular on the stand-up circuit, before acting and other television work, including ad campaigns and being a panellist on the long-running quiz QI, took him away from live comedy. But now, after a break of more than a decade... Read more... |
Jenny Eclair, touringWednesday, 31 October 2012
Among the many things Jenny Eclair does these days - writing novels, panto, appearing on television in various guises - she has found time to go back on the road with Eclairious. TV hasn't curbed her deliciously potty mouth, thank goodness, and even... Read more... |
Jack Dee, Edinburgh PlayhouseTuesday, 30 October 2012
“When I was a teenager even I had a period when apparently I was quite morose,” Jack Dee tells the Edinburgh crowd, his hangdog features projecting various extremes of existential agony. “But, hey, I got through it." This may be Dee’s first standup... Read more... |
Russell Kane, Hammersmith ApolloMonday, 29 October 2012
For the past few years Russell Kane has mined much of his comedy from his fraught relationship with his father, now dead. It's a neat twist then to postulate his latest show, Posturing Delivery, on his relationship with "Ivan", Kane's entirely... Read more... |
Shappi Khorsandi, Soho TheatreFriday, 19 October 2012
If the first rule of being a novelist is to write about what you know, then the first rule of comedy is to be yourself. And in that respect Shappi Khorsandi starts with an advantage, as being herself means she's warm and likeable and the audience... Read more... |
Greg Davies, touringSaturday, 13 October 2012
Greg Davies strolls onstage to the sound of Fatboy Slim’s remix of Wildchild’s “Renegade Master”, the “44 year old renegade master,” as he drily observes. From there he initially dwells on middle age and the way his stomach has expanded. His manner... Read more... |
Michael Mittermeier, Soho TheatreFriday, 12 October 2012
There must be something on the air; a few foreign comics (including Edinburgh Comedy Awards newcomer winner Daniel Simonsen) were performing in English at this year's Edinburgh Fringe and now one of them, Germany's Michael Mittermeier, has brought... Read more... |
Michael Mittermeier, Soho TheatreThursday, 11 October 2012Read more... |
Greg Davies, The Dome, BrightonThursday, 11 October 2012Read more... |
Danny Bhoy, Bloomsbury TheatreThursday, 11 October 2012Read more... |
Danny Bhoy, Bloomsbury TheatreThursday, 11 October 2012
Danny Bhoy is big in Scotland and Canada and huge Down Under, as they say, but is a surprisingly unfamiliar name to many. I'm not sure, other than a lack of a television presence, why he's not as well-known throughout the UK as he should be: he's an... Read more... |
Kevin Bridges, Hammersmith ApolloThursday, 04 October 2012The young Glaswegian, now ever present on TV, tours with his latest show The Story Continues... until 8 December. Book at: http://www.t icketmaster.co.uk/Kevin-Bridges-tickets/artist/213363 Read more... |
