John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza! 5*****

August 11, 2024 | one4review

John Luke Roberts starts his show, after a bit of ‘business’ to get his audience into the mood he needs, by proposing that Edith Piaf regretted five things.

The show has no storytelling or narrative arc, being fundamentally about innumerable … Read More

Alternative Comedy Memorial Scociety (ACMS) 4****

August 11, 2018 | one4review

Roughly eleven acts in a three hour show (two intervals!) showcasing things that might not work elsewhere. This one kept to time nicely (which is a first), possibly due to the reduced host-banter (though Thom Tuck singing compensated for that), … Read More

John-Luke Roberts: All I Wanna Do Is [FX: GUNSHOTS] With a [FX: GUN RELOADING] and a [FX: CASH REGISTER] and Perform Some Comedy! 5*****

August 5, 2018 | one4review

John-Luke describes this show as a ‘manifesto for absurdity’, a celebration of the fact that most of life doesn’t confirm to neatly plotted narrative arcs, and an acknowledgement that this is okay, is even a source of amusement. It might … Read More

John-Luke Roberts: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair! (All in Caps) 4****

August 25, 2017 | one4review

Should anyone wish to know, I am instructed to inform people that this show was ‘significant’. This means: ‘sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy’. I am willing to grant that it is a sufficiently great show … Read More

Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) 4****

August 21, 2017 | one4review

ACMS has another new home, and this one is hot, and not allowed to have loud music. So naturally, on the bill were a trumpet player, a saxophonist and a trombonist, and equally naturally, the audience (without a huge amount … Read More

John-Luke Roberts: Stdad-Up 5*****

August 12, 2015 | one4review

Do not be deceived by the blurb for this show. As we left, my cheeks and stomach hurt, so I know I had been poorless with laughter, but more immediate were the tears: regardless of whether the show … Read More