Articles...
Oct 15 2008
THE Mighty Boosh breathed the kiss of life into Arena comedy last night, just 24 hours after Steve Coogan had threatened to do it irreparable damage....
Oct 13 2008
IT HAD seemed somewhat strange that Steve Coogan, cracking America quite nicely at the moment, had decided to tour the UK as (to use the title of the show itself) Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters....
May 30 2008
GINA YASHERE doesn’t tour the UK as much as she used to, having mov- ed to LA to further her career. At first, it seemed something of an absurd move for the brash Lond- oner, but last night there was no reason to doubt she has what it takes to make it over there....
Apr 17 2008
IT WAS the Vicar of Dibley meets Ab Fab. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders on their farewell tour, called Still Alive, happily illustrated their on-screen and on-stage chemistry....
Mar 17 2008
LIGHTNING-WITTED comic Dara O’Briain said he toyed with calling his new unlabelled tour You Had To Be There, and he couldn’t have been more right....
Mar 7 2008
SPURRED on by Jamie Oliver’s foray into school dinners - and the fact that his taciturn wife Mary is a dinner lady - Sheffield’s master of DIY, light entertainment and the Yamaha organ has decided to show us that anything the chirpy Cockney sparrer can conjure up then so can he....
Feb 11 2008
IN BETWEEN Robin Ince’s excitable, rambling trains of thought, the stand-up can be heard garbling out little manic asides to himself, like “I think I’m having a breakdown” or “I’m definitely ill”....
Oct 22 2007
EFFORTLESS and endearing. The Irish stand-up, author and actor had the Liverpool audience in the palm of his hands from the moment he took to the stage....
