sketch comedy
Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights/ The Morgana Show, Channel 4Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights is an interesting beast. A mix of stand-up, sketches and cartoons, it’s neither fish nor fowl, but many will certainly find it foul - with the comic’s penchant for sexually explicit material, unPC humour and... Read more... |
Stephen K Amos's new TV showSaturday, 30 October 2010
Stephen K Amos, who was born in London to immigrant Nigerian parents, always used to joke that he would get a television series only when Lenny Henry died, because commissioning editors were working on a “one out, one in” basis where black comics... Read more... |
Edinburgh Fringe: Late Night Gimp Fight!/ While You LieTuesday, 10 August 2010
Going to a late-night comedy show at the Fringe is always taking a risk, not least because every drunken fool in the place, with their oh-so-funny heckles, thinks they’re funnier than the performers. And so it proved at the performance I saw of this... Read more... |
That Mitchell and Webb Look, BBC TwoWednesday, 14 July 2010
If you know David Mitchell and Robert Webb from Peep Show on Channel 4 (written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain), in which Mitchell plays the insufferably self-important Mark and Webb the self-deluding idiot Jeremy, then you will easily recognise... Read more... |
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