2019

I hate reviews like this, reviews where I feel duty-bound to be a little more mean than I want to be, even a little more mean than I think a show deserves. Odd Paul is […]

Stood in a purposefully uncomfortable dress-up to add to the seemingly on-edge character, Pat Cahil delivers his new stand up performance – Uncle Len Needs A New Part For His Hoover – more as a […]

“I never know how to enter in these things so thought I’d just stroll in like it’s my living room…” Sunil Patel states plainly, appearing in The Pleasance’s first bunker, seemingly out of nowhere. This […]

As two young women, one in a Minnie Mouse t-shirt, the other all in black, take their seats beside me at Just the Tonic’s The Mash House for ‘Jenny Bede The Musical’, I think it’s […]

Last night, Matt Parker performed in front of a room two-thirds full of software engineers. This is most likely an issue of advertising (the whole maths meets comedy malarky), as the show Parker presents is […]

The Edinburgh double comedy award winner is back and he’s full of song, literally. Opening up with a musical ballad, it’s a surprising opening gambit, but winning one. Immediately you can sense there’s a small […]

“If the show isn’t good, at least you get to sit down for 45 minutes” is a brave way to start a stand up comedy show. But, luckily Nick Elleray doesn’t have to worry about […]

Looking like the love child of the Hairy Bikers, Scottish comedian Ben Verth hits the stage with excellent vigour in the Monkey Barrel 5, the comedy club he had a big part in starting (and […]

Joz Norris is Dead…’ is as inventive as it is wonderfully obnoxious. Norris is riding the wave of absurdist/postmodern slapstick that seems to be slowly squeezing its way into the mainstream at the moment. However, […]

Luke Rollason ‘delivers’ one cracking opening for his show. It’s an early indication that we’re in the presence of someone who oozes creativity and invention, but also as it turns out, a sign of one […]