225 stories by "James Kettle"
Spencer Jones Presents: The Herbert In Proper Job | Kevin Eldon | Andy Hamilton: Change ManagementYou might think that Corbynism is the most popular religion among stand-ups these days, but …
Bill Bailey | Séance Fiction: The Improvised Haunting | BeardymanHe may not be as constant a presence on TV as he was in the heyday of his Never Mind The Buzzcocks captaincy and turn as Dyl…
Festival Of The Spoken Nerd: Just For Graphs | Sarah Millican: Outsider | Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse: Legends!While it might have seemed appropriate when they started out, the name …
Robert Newman: The Brain Show | Paul Foot: A Retrospective | Roisin Conaty: Work In ProgressEvery time Rob Newman comes up with a new live show, it is beholden on all observers of comedy to …
Laugh4Rory | Joe Lycett | Sean HughesWaldenström's Macroglobulinemia sounds like the sort of fictitious disease you'd find in the works of Chris Morris, but in fact it's a rare form of …
Sam Simmons: Spaghetti For Breakfast | Mark Thomas: Trespass | Comedy CoupletsSometimes, the Edinburgh comedy award goes to an emerging talent who is clearly destined for great things. At ot…
Doug Stanhope | Tom Parry: Yellow T-Shirt | Frisky & Mannish: Just Too Much"I'm Doug Stanhope, and that's why I drink." Regular watchers of Weekly Wipe will already be familiar with Char…
Justin Moorhouse: Destiny Calling | Mae Martin: Us | Chris Ramsey: All Growed UpFor all the excitement that avant garde performers who push back the boundaries of stand-up generate for comed…
Tez Ilyas | Elis James | The Jeremy Corbyn NightHe may not have made it on to any of the award shortlists, but Tez Ilyas's debut Edinburgh festival fringe hour was one of this year's most ta…
Stand Up 4 Stand Up | Adam Hess | John GordilloGiven the vast numbers of people living in terrible situations across the nation, you might find it hard to get worked up about the plight of c…
Ivo Graham | Joseph Morpugo | The PinAs Ivo Graham acknowledges in the course of his confidently performed and laughter-rich show, he has a few obstacles when getting an audience to like him…
Sheeps Skewer The News | Nish Kumar | Richard GaddYou don't get much satire on TV these days, and what there is tends to be the same observations we've heard a million times before, audience…
James Acaster | Kieran Hodgson | Jena FriedmanThe overwhelming majority of comedians at the fringe would give anything to get nominated for the supposedly all-important Edinburgh comedy awar…
Critics weren't ready for Michael Che's street-smarts two years ago. But now the New York stand-up is a Saturday Night Live star and he's come back for moreTwo years ago, New York-born stand…
Sarah Callaghan | Julian Deane | Mawaan Rizwan | Corey White | Phil Jerrod | Kevin JThere's nothing softly softly about the approach of Sarah Callaghan. An early twentysomething Londoner, sh…
Limmy: Daft Wee Stories | The Comedy Grotto All-Day Edinburgh Preview Special | Josh Widdicombe: Work In ProgressIt might not be the biggest mistake the BBC has made in recent years, but not…
Stand Up For Satire | Ian Smith | Susan Harrison Presents Jennie Benton WordsmithWe used to be good at satire here in the UK. But nowadays it's hard to imagine us ever coming up with a homeg…
Arj Baker | Iain Stirling | Nick RevellEven comedy aficionados know Arj Barker better for his appearances in cult comedy series Flight Of The Conchords than for his solo stand-up work. Yet B…
Balham Comedy Festival | Rob Beckett | Glenn WoolFor all the ballyhoo that surrounds big shows at the Hammersmith Apollo and O2, the real heart of London's comedy scene lies in a relatively …
Dave Chappelle | Bristol Comedy Garden | Steen RaskopoulosDave Chappelle is probably most famous for being the comedian who had everything and gave it all away. As the star of his own Chappe…
Robin Ince | Pierre Novellie | John-Luke RobertsOver the last decade, Robin Ince has become increasingly interested in things other than the stand-up that originally made his name. He's beco…
Paul Sinha | Kevin Bridges | Zoe LyonsComedians get hired to do all sorts of unlikely jobs these days. Paul Sinha alternates his nocturnal stand-up career with a daytime gig on ITV's The Cha…
Will Franken | David Trent | Harriet KemsleyBeing compared to the late Robin Williams might not seem like the hippest of accolades, but if you can shift from your mind the image of umpteen s…
Luisa Omielan | Hilarity charity gala | Max And IvanA few years ago, Luisa Omielan was an almost completely unknown comic on the London circuit. Then her debut full-length show What Would Be…
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