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People say I must be mad. I’ve only taken up comedy since retiring from advertising a few years ago. Most of my experience has been doing five-minute spots at open-mic venues and...

You can stick your "as seen on Live at the Apollo” boasts on your flyers, up your little GenZies, kids,  Bobby Davro has been “Live at the Palladium”. In fact his credits would...

As a teenager in an unfamiliar town, with non-religious but busy parents, Spring Day’s conversion began with sleepovers and pizza parties with school friends whose families were part of a Christian cult....

IF you want to know what it would be like to hear Sir David Attenborough commentating on Arsenal fans visiting Wolverhampton in the late 70s in the style of one of his...

Full of Facebook humour and unfunny dad jokes, Plastic Jeezus can’t decide whether they want to be good at music or good at comedy, maybe just stick to the music.  A low...

Adam Flood’s dad-based material can feel sensitive, personal, and funny, but at other times awkward and strangely disjointed. He struggles to get going early on, but once he finds his feet, he...

I’M a huge Hegley fan anyway but to start a show with a poem about my favourite artist, Caravaggio, sealed the deal for me (right, that’s you off to Pseud’s Corner, Ed.)....

Brennan Reece takes to the stage in a cavernous hall to spin his tale of showbiz disappointment. He wants everyone to know that he was just sacked from his dream job, but...

Take me to church Camille O’Sullivan. Her performance, at Assembly Roxy, is a gorgeous love letter to her close friends Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor, who both passed away in 2023. There...