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Britt Migs’ version is upbeat and punchy as well as cathartic. It has the American club-honed impetus of putting a gag on every other beat, taking no time for introspection nor going into too much ...
John Tothill had the most perfect comic persona right out of the traps: a companionable, camp bon vivant, gloriously combining a generous spirit with low-rent hedonism.
ROOM 101: Paul Merton returns to ask celebrities to banish the things they hate the most. Maisie Adam kicks off the new series with speedy boarding on airlines, sequels and mobile phones at live ...
Watching their debut one-man shows feels like receiving reports of people who have to get airlifted off Snowdon after attempting the climb in jeans and wellies. Sometimes the shows aren’t even ...
You can say what you want about Dylan Adler as long as you think he’s a star. As a high-octane theatre kid with an extravagantly camp queerness, he throws all the razzmatazz he can into entertaining ...
Harry Hill says he was inspired to leave medicine to become a comedian by the death of his stepfather Tony. Speaking on Desert Island Discs today, the comic said his change of career in the early ...
The show takes place in an imaginary cinema, but this is no nostalgic Cinema Paradiso. Cinemadrome is a seedy, down-at-heel national chain, where dedicated employee Cabbage is ordered from concessions ...
In fact, just the other day while I was down there catching up on a few grievances, I had a bit of a flick through and was reminded of something that another stand-up said to me in 2018: ‘Improv will ...
LONDON: The self-described 'Pansexual People’s Princess of New Zealand', Brynley Stent, brings her latest absurdist solo sketch show to Soho Theatre for two nights. Slut Witch is described as 'part ...
Alerted to his ancestral link to the 17th Century Pendle Witch Trials, the comic has embraced his magical heritage in an effort to process his late-stage ADHD diagnosis, satirising his hyperfocus as a ...
In Watch This When You Get Home, the mild-mannered stand-up describes himself as ‘yearny’ not ‘horny’, revelling in the romanticised idea of himself as a man with an unfulfilled longing for a crush, ...
For his official Fringe debut, after two years of 45-minute runs, Thor Stenhaug has gone for a straight-down-the-line ‘this is me’ introductory show, addressing his name, his Norwegianness, and his ...