Comedy Reviews
Adam Kay, Bloomsbury Theatre review - festive tales from the NHS coalfaceMonday, 09 December 2019![]()
Medic-turned-comic Adam Kay had been performing for some years before he wrote his 2016 Edinburgh Fringe show Fingering a Minor at the Piano. It had a personal addendum – about why he left medicine – and was a call to arms to save the NHS. Read more... |
Andy Parsons, Stamford Corn Exchange review - politics and the art of persuasionMonday, 02 December 2019![]()
Andy Parsons is a comic known to like a good old rant, particularly on a political issue. Read more... |
Jack Whitehall, O2 Arena - a mix of posh and puerileTuesday, 26 November 2019![]()
Jack Whitehall is hardly ever off the telly, appearing on gameshows or jollying around with his father, Michael, presenting the BRIT Awards and proving to be a decent actor in dramas such as Decline and Fall. Read more... |
Ivo Graham: The Game of Life, Soho Theatre review - privilege and parentingThursday, 21 November 2019![]()
Ivo Graham's latest show The Game of Life follows on from his previous hour, in which he talked about passing a milestone in life and the prospect of starting a family. Read more... |
Stewart Lee: Tornado/Snowflake, Leicester Square Theatre review - snark to SharknadoTuesday, 19 November 2019![]()
Stewart Lee is back on the road after three years, and he comes back wonderfully refreshed and on marvellous form with this double header, Tornado/Snowflake. Read more... |
Jack Dee, Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage review - now he really is a grumpy old manMonday, 11 November 2019![]()
Jack Dee has made a career out of being a grumpy old man, even though he started on the comedy circuit in 1986 when he was 25. Read more... |
Tim Minchin, Eventim Apollo review - fabulous triumph of rhyme and reasonSaturday, 09 November 2019![]()
Is there anything Tim Minchin cannot do? He sings his own songs, plays hot bar-room piano and tells jokes about the existence of God. He composes musicals, performs in Lloyd Webber and Stoppard, writes a multimillion-dollar Hollywood cartoon which he is allowed to direct – until he isn’t. Read more... |
Jonathan Pie, Eventim Apollo review - spoof reporter in coruscating formTuesday, 05 November 2019![]()
Jonathan Pie is a YouTube star, a spoof television news reporter (created by actor and comic Tom Walker), who is prone to gaffes. It was one of those on-screen gaffes that led to Pie being sacked as the BBC's Westminster correspondent, footage of which we see here on the onstage big screen alongside the highlights and lowlights of Pie's career – mostly the latter. Read more... |
Lou Sanders, Soho Theatre review - feminism and dodgy massagesMonday, 04 November 2019![]()
Lou Sanders has named her latest show (which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe) Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy. But, as she tells us in her opening comments, she's not a mother or stepmother, and hasn't yet met a father she likes, but “by the end of the year, God willing…” Read more... |
Ben Elton, Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall review - magnificent return to stand-upThursday, 31 October 2019![]()
It has been 15 years since Ben Elton, known as Motormouth in his 1980s heyday – last toured. Read more... |
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