The main event: Brighton Comedy Festival
This year’s Brighton Comedy Festival had a lot to live up to. With last year’s opening ceremony featuring ubiquitous national comedy figures Alan Carr and Michael McIntyre, 2010 had set…
Comedy goes coastal
Now in the eighth year, the Magners Brighton Comedy Festival is set to be the biggest and funniest festival yet. Britain’s premier event solely devoted to comedy, is this October…
ACAS shows off its diversity at Culture Fest
Until three days ago, I didn’t know the ACAS Culture Fest existed. When I walk through library square I tend to keep my head down for fear of being hounded…
Success No Secret
Secret Cinema’s latest project, the seductively named Secret Cinema, premiered in Brighton last month with a fantastic night of entertainment and immersion in the form of the 44th best comedy…
Quirky comedy improv gets the nod
Comedy Store Players Corn Exchange, 23/10/08 ‘So, I’m an apprentice to the cake maker who specialises in making lemon drizzle cakes for David Hasselhoff’s oil boy?’ Steve Steen looks incredulously…
Goodbye Mr. Chips?
Roy Walker Corn Exchange, 25/10/08 Tonight sees the return of Roy Walker, the ‘Catchphrase’ presenter turned stand-up comic. The opening soundtrack to ‘Catchphrase’ leaves the audience reeling with reminiscent excitement,…
Stephen grants us a laugh
Stephen Grant Corn Exchange, 25/10/08 Stephen Grant is a man who definitely follows the mantra “first the worst, second the best” – in fact, his Brighton festival show for this…
Embarrassing dad posing as stand-up comedian?
Mark Steel Corn Exchange, 24/10/08 Mark Steel is well-received by a left-leaning and surprisingly diverse audience in terms of age at a reasonably full Corn Exchange. The ‘I first heard…