comedy

Anyone else fighting pangs of envy following their favourite funny people on Twitter up in Edinburgh? Well, there’s lots on in Camden to distract you but if you’re missing David O’Doherty, Richard Herring, Robin Ince, Stewart Lee, Tim Key, Shappi Khorsandi, Stephen K Amos, Arthur …

As we pointed out last year, Adrian Poynton is one of the nicest people alive. The basis for his new show (and it is a new show, still going through the edit) is that recently, he’s become a bit disillusioned with humanity – all the …

PVT Wars looks at three disparate young Vietnam veterans, recovering from service. Natwick is a privileged, educated New Yorker, Silvio a pumped up Italian American and Gately a mid-western, innocent farmboy. All have shattered nerves. Gately’s obsessed with fixing a radio, Natwick’s neurotic and Silvio’s …

Andrew O’Neill is a lot of things, as he cheerfully tells us during his 45-minute whirlwind show – a scrawny metalhead, a vegan anarchist transvestite, a rubbish fighter, a former jockey – but, above all these, he is underprepared. This doesn’t negate the quality of …

James Mason & Stuart Laws A stand up show dissecting stand up’s norms, picking over past failures and pushing through expectations and taste to ‘unweave’ the form and still make people laugh is a brave endeavour. Especially when several people sit down and realise they’re …

A last minute stand up slot at the delightfully makeshift Sheephaven Bay was irresistible to Matt Kirshen, despite his decision to leave Edinburgh alone and have a quiet August. Five nights on the residential back streets of NW1 present an opportunity to experiment and with …

Flapperty Twuffolk is a sleepy little Surrey village populated by Daily Mail readers, bitchy women and mass murderers, as well as the Prime Minister when he’s in his top secret hideout (just opposite the tea shop) because of a fiendish terrorist attack involving something to …

Have you ever had an itch you wanted to scratch but couldn’t reach? For DJ Danny (Danny Robins), that itch is nothing short of international DJ superstardom. By day, he’s a frustrated English and General Studies teacher; by night, he lays down beats which, as …

Helen Keen knows that space and rocket science aren’t the most obvious comedy show topics for a ‘girl’, particularly one who sounds as jolly hockey sticks as it’s possible to get. But appearances can be deceptive, as the energetic and aptly-named Keen – actually from …

Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence by Keith Pattison It was inevitable that the public voting format would infiltrate theatre. No Idea at The Young Vic reveals, with almost a total lack of surprise, the public often has no idea what they want, and end up …