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So, yes, this is another comedy review site (like Chortle… only less professional, exhaustive or well written) but these are just my opinions so hardly deserve gospel status. I have been watching live comedy for around 15 years and I have to say that I 100% admire anyone who has the guts to take to a spot lit stage in front of an unknown crowd armed with just a microphone and their wits. It’s a profession that I know I could not do and for that I doff my tiny bowler hat to them.

Improvabunga (2021)

On this night we had a newbie in tow. I mention this only because she was directly responsible for us seeing this improv troupe. You see, she loves 'live comedy' but had only really seen it on TV… Yes, I... Continue Reading →

Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen (WiP 2021)

This was to be our first proper Edinburgh Fringe show in almost two years and I think we ticked every appropriate box - a cool quirky basement venue, an unpolished work-in-progress show and a clown that we had never seen... Continue Reading →

Adam Kay: This Is Going To Hurt (2021)

J, Dre, Seuss, Pepper, Robotnik… these are the names that most quickly spring to mind when I think about doctors I’d spend time with. And yet here I am, waiting eagerly in the audience to see my second Dr turned... Continue Reading →

Benji Waterstones: You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here (WiP 2021)

So this is what happens when you don't read the fine print on a show description. At no point did I expect this to be a show where we're read draft chapters from a book... and yet that is exactly... Continue Reading →

Yuriko Kotani: Brighton Fringe (WiP 2021)

"Sarcasm... Love it" These three words delivered deadpan by our clown for the evening instantly reminded me why I had been so excited to see Yuriko Kotani back on stage. It was a hot day at the Brighton Fringe, painfully... Continue Reading →

Simon Amstell: Spirit Hole (WiP 2021)

In the bizarre realm of Simon Amstell's existence, a man whose anxieties are like a nest of hornets perpetually buzzing in his psyche, the notion of abstaining from the stage for half a year should be the least of his... Continue Reading →

Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (WiP 2021)

We have mostly resisted the temptation to review live online stand-up comedy during lockdown, not because we doubt the talent of the performers but simply because it can't ever really offer that pure stand-up gig feel that we know and... Continue Reading →

Ari Eldjarn: Eagle Fire Iron (Vinyl 2020)

I have been excited to write this review ever since I saw the project appear on Crowdfunder. Whenever I watch older U.S clowns they talk about when they were kids sneaking a listen to their favourite comedy albums - legends... Continue Reading →

Tim Minchin: ‘Apart Together’ Album Launch (2020)

"Hey, would you guys like to watch Tim Minchin's new Album Launch Live tonight?"... It's the kind of rhetorical email question that deserves an intensely sarcastic response. "Tim Minchin you say? You mean that incredible musical clown who has created... Continue Reading →

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