Natalie Haynes – Watching The Detectives 

Like Natalie I enjoy watching American detective shows, unlike her I don’t have them on DVD nor do I tape them to watch them later. Natalie is a motor-mouth, no I’m not being insulting, she tells us this at … Read More

The Receptionists

The Receptionists is described as fast paced but this is an understatement. It is frantic. There is a plot which is essentially silly but reality is not the objective of the comedy. Two receptionists, the capable Tina, played by … Read More

Terry Alderton  –  Divinely Discontented

Terry Alderton  –  Divinely Discontented It was a few years ago that I first came across Terry Alderton and that year he was nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award. He seemed to drop off the comedy radar for a … Read More

Sally Swallows & The Rise of Londinian

Billed as the Uk’s darkest and nastiest comedy -horror sketch show, I suppose it maybe has reached it’s aims.

I found it nasty, the script horrible and the jokes and running gags generally poor.

I was not alone, the person … Read More

Russell Howard – Skylarking

Russell Howard first came to our attention during the Pleasance Press Launch in 2004, we then saw him at The Stand Comedy Club. On the strength of these two snippets I went to see his full show ‘Skylarking’.

Both Russell … Read More

Russell Brand – Eroticised Humour

Ok to start with I don’t watch ‘Big Brother’, we don’t have digital TV and I hadn’t been drinking before the show.

Why then did it surprise me that I felt I was in a plastic bubble being kept away … Read More

Romantic Comedy – A Stand-Up Show

Terry Saunders is a tall, mid 20’s Londoner with something of a Woody Allen Appearance. He has an engaging, easy and even soft delivery.

Opening with a lively routine about auctioning on e-bay, he quickly involved the audience with some … Read More

Robert Dubac’s The Male Intelect: An Oxymoron

Apologies to those familiar with the figure of speech, but an oxymoron is defined as the combination of contradictory words to form an expressive phrase. Knowing this, gives an idea where Robert Dubac is coming from. The male intellect, he … Read More

The Road to Pisa

Welcome to Renaissance Italy and meet the Dell’Artes family, Alfredo, Ronaldo and Mamma, a circus act that to be frank needs an upgrade. They team up with a peasant girl with oomph, by name of Bella and head to the … Read More

The Road to Boothby Graffoe

Boothby Graffoe, is a place in Lincolnshire I believe, but for me there is only one Boothby Graffoe and he is a tall comic singer who has been gracing the Fringe for years.

Initially I wasn’t aware that he was … Read More