Go West Old Maid is more restless than her acclaimed solo debut, Farm Fatale, not quite so well-balanced between oddness and narrative. But the unhinged charisma with which Norris delivers her ...

‘In 2023, Mark Simmons and Danny Ward organised a show for the much-loved Gareth Richards, a comedian who had died in a car crash. They raised £20,000 for his family and, fittingly, won the first ...

In her approach to comedy, Lorna Rose Treen is something of an old soul. Her 24 Hour Diner People has the sensibilities of those 1950s radio shows where big variety-hall performances were shoehorned ...

Britt Migs’ version is upbeat and punchy as well as cathartic. It has the American club-honed impetus of putting a gag on every other beat, taking no time for introspection nor going into too much ...

John Tothill had the most perfect comic persona right out of the traps: a companionable, camp bon vivant, gloriously combining a generous spirit with low-rent hedonism.

Watching their debut one-man shows feels like receiving reports of people who have to get airlifted off Snowdon after attempting the climb in jeans and wellies. Sometimes the shows aren’t even ...

You can say what you want about Dylan Adler as long as you think he’s a star. As a high-octane theatre kid with an extravagantly camp queerness, he throws all the razzmatazz he can into entertaining ...

Harry Hill says he was inspired to leave medicine to become a comedian by the death of his stepfather Tony. Speaking on Desert Island Discs today, the comic said his change of career in the early ...

In fact, just the other day while I was down there catching up on a few grievances, I had a bit of a flick through and was reminded of something that another stand-up said to me in 2018: ‘Improv will ...

LONDON: The self-described 'Pansexual People’s Princess of New Zealand', Brynley Stent, brings her latest absurdist solo sketch show to Soho Theatre for two nights. Slut Witch is described as 'part ...

In Watch This When You Get Home, the mild-mannered stand-up describes himself as ‘yearny’ not ‘horny’, revelling in the romanticised idea of himself as a man with an unfulfilled longing for a crush, ...

Alerted to his ancestral link to the 17th Century Pendle Witch Trials, the comic has embraced his magical heritage in an effort to process his late-stage ADHD diagnosis, satirising his hyperfocus as a ...