✭✭✭✭ Already one of the longest titles for a show at this year’s fringe, Matt Forde opens by saying he would have gone for a longer one had Gerry Rafferty written a song which included various expletives that more accurately sum up his opinions of politics in Britain today. He notes that he’s going to […]
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Review: Dave Johns – A Comic’s Tale
✭✭✭✭ Most familiar for playing the title role in ‘I Daniel Blake’, Dave Johns is less well known for being a stand-up comedian, in spite of doing it for much of the last 40 years. He ably demonstrated why it shouldn’t have taken a Ken Loach film to bring him to stardom. Opening with a […]
Review: Tim Key – Mulberry
✭✭✭✭✭ Tim Key had the showbiz world at his feet, about to appear on Pointless Celebrities and also lined up for the part of a paedophile in an episode of Vera. And then the country went into lockdown, and now two years later he’s back playing student union gigs wearing a tracksuit. Welcome to the […]
Review: Marcus Brigstocke – absolute shower
✭✭✭✭ Marcus Brigstocke is clearly delighted at being able to return to stand-up and to the Fringe after a pandemic-enforced absence, but he doesn’t feel that lockdown was without its benefits, the most notable of which was finally being able to tell parents and relatives that they couldn’t come to stay at Christmas. This hour-long […]
Review: Jon Culshaw is Les Dawson – Flying High
✭✭✭✭ Even if you are unfamiliar with Les Dawson and his place in the 70s and 80s comedy pantheon, this play by Olivier Award-winning writer Tim Withnall and performed by the impressionist Jon Culshaw is well worth a visit. Deliberate mangling of his piano renditions was one of the many things for which Dawson was […]