Jill Peacock

James Sherwood

21 Aug 2008

Sherwood could be the love child of Victoria Wood and Richard Whiteley, a not so wild fusion of bland complacent chuckles set to music accompanied by smug smatterings. It's clever in places, but it's really all over before you've noticed. It'll have you…

Lloyd Woolf

14 Aug 2008

Woolf's head is stuffed with so much ridiculous nonsense that he couldn't write just one set. Instead he brings us ten wonderful comedy nuggets from previously rejected show ideas. There are no big, brash laughs in this whimsical journey of surreal…

F*ck This Show (You Know You Want To)

14 Aug 2008

This is a surprising little late-night midget gem of a show, and for those of you who like the rough-and-ready game-of-two-halves stand-up, Nicole Korkolis and Becky Donohue come up trumps. It's jagged around the edges, but feisty in all the right…

Jason Kavan

Unfunny, opinionated ramblings

7 Aug 2008

Tough Crowd is a great title for a show, but you know it's going to be a long hour when the first gag of the night is an attempted cheeky chuckle at date rape. Jason Kavan is a nice man with nice teeth, and we want him to be funny. But he's not and…

Stephen Grant

7 Aug 2008

Grant revels in his slick geekiness and this show is an absolute pleasure, an intelligent fast-paced whirlwind of thoughts and theories, all wrapped up beautifully with a bit of wonderfully nerdish IT. Stephen Grant might always seem to be in second…

Rhod Gilbert

7 Aug 2008

Welshman Gilbert can't be trusted. You can't believe a high octane word that comes out of his mouth, but his random ramblings do have a way of seducing you. It's one heck of a fast-talking hour of gentle opinionated observations that twist and turn in…

The Boom Jennies

7 Aug 2008

This three-woman comedy act manages to gel slick silly awkwardness with surreal nonsense and even a hint of a dark side. It's a slow burner of a show, and there are no real belly laughs, but you may find some smiles sneaking up to tickle you under the…