Review: Terry Alderton, Bloomsbury Theatre
"The apotheosis of comic dislocation". It's a description I once read about the Chuckle Brothers, but I think it could just as easily describe Terry Alderton. What on earth is going on in the Essex...
View ArticleReview: The Week Ahead May 13 - 19
This is a week bookended by Michael McIntyre, so if you are like the wag who just posted "thanks for the warning" on my Facebook page and maybe don't appreciate rapidfire, smiley observational humour,...
View ArticleOpinion: How Do You Follow The Main Attraction?
5pm Update – Following publication of this piece Jason Byrne tweeted to explain that "Lee Evans begged me to close, he said he couldn't follow the byrne magic"...Tags: lee evansmichael mcintyrejack...
View ArticleInterview: Seann Walsh
Just before the Edinburgh Fringe started I interviewed Seann Walsh for The Independent on Sunday on the ups and downs of drinking. Walsh has something of a reputation as an imbiber.Tags: seann...
View ArticleOpinion: Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The Aftermath
As the posters are ripped down and the bills are paid up comedians everywhere will be asking themselves whether it was worth going to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Some have won awards, some have had...
View ArticleOpinion: Can You Ever Really Give Up Stand-Up?
Can you ever really give up being a comedian? This thought has occurred to me a number of times recently. On Sunday morning I was reading an interview with David Walliams in the Observer online and the...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Barking In Essex, Wyndham's Theatre
Lee Evans is one of comedy's most versatile superstars. He can fill arenas with his stand-up shows, he can do Samuel Beckett and he was sensational in the stage version of The Producers. So quite what...
View ArticleNews: Superagent Addison Cresswell Dies
It is not an understatement to say that the British comedy world was rocked as well as shocked to hear yesterday that Addison Cresswell, one of the industry's most powerful agents, had suddenly died....
View ArticleNews: Lee Evans To Quit Comedy?
Lee Evans has announced that he is planning to retire at the end of his current Monsters tour. Evans was being interviewed by Jonathan Ross for his Saturday night ITV1 chat show and said that he wanted...
View ArticleOpinion: What I Won't Miss About Lee Evans
I guess your thoughts on Lee Evans announcing his retirement from stand-up comedy depends on what you think of him as a stand-up comedian. I’ve been a big fan of his for years, but like a number of...
View ArticleOpinion: What Do Lewis Hamilton & Lee Evans Have In Common?
I was listening to the tributes to newly-crowned Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton this morning and one particular thing was mentioned that caught my attention. Hamilton was just the tip of a...
View ArticleNews: Kevin Bridges Tops Tickets Chart
Ticketmaster has today revealed that Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges was the most popular comedy act of 2014 in terms of clicks on their website. The Clydebank-born 28 year-old embarks on a 99-date...
View ArticleReview: Terry Alderton, Bloomsbury Theatre
"The apotheosis of comic dislocation". It's a description I once read about the Chuckle Brothers, but I think it could just as easily describe Terry Alderton. What on earth is going on in the Essex...
View ArticleReview: The Week Ahead May 13 - 19
This is a week bookended by Michael McIntyre, so if you are like the wag who just posted "thanks for the warning" on my Facebook page and maybe don't appreciate rapidfire, smiley observational humour,...
View ArticleOpinion: How Do You Follow The Main Attraction?
5pm Update – Following publication of this piece Jason Byrne tweeted to explain that "Lee Evans begged me to close, he said he couldn't follow the byrne magic"...Tags: lee evansmichael mcintyrejack...
View ArticleInterview: Seann Walsh
Just before the Edinburgh Fringe started I interviewed Seann Walsh for The Independent on Sunday on the ups and downs of drinking. Walsh has something of a reputation as an imbiber.Tags: seann...
View ArticleOpinion: Edinburgh Comedy Awards: The Aftermath
As the posters are ripped down and the bills are paid up comedians everywhere will be asking themselves whether it was worth going to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Some have won awards, some have had...
View ArticleOpinion: Can You Ever Really Give Up Stand-Up?
Can you ever really give up being a comedian? This thought has occurred to me a number of times recently. On Sunday morning I was reading an interview with David Walliams in the Observer online and the...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Barking In Essex, Wyndham's Theatre
Lee Evans is one of comedy's most versatile superstars. He can fill arenas with his stand-up shows, he can do Samuel Beckett and he was sensational in the stage version of The Producers. So quite what...
View ArticleNews: Superagent Addison Cresswell Dies
It is not an understatement to say that the British comedy world was rocked as well as shocked to hear yesterday that Addison Cresswell, one of the industry's most powerful agents, had suddenly died....
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