When the Jokes Don’t Hit…
Fetch yourself a drink with some snacks and get comfortable, because you now have front-row tickets to a date where stand-up comedy truly stood everyone up. Ever uttered a witty…
Review: Smart Casual Tour by Jeff Innocent
“Twenty-six years doing stand-up comedy, just to become an overnight success,” is the predicament that 67-year-old stand-up comedian Jeff Innocent has found himself in. This meteoric rise was the result…
Tragedy or Comedy? Only Good Storytelling Makes a Special
TW: Death, Sexual Assault, and Transphobia “She’s in heaven, I’m on Netflix, it all worked out” claims a triumphant Taylor Tomlinson as she strikes a power pose at the audience…
Stand Up & Slam review
Sometimes the best experiences are those you initially question. Stand Up & Slam is one such idea, for it is a resounding triumph of an evening. Hosted in the downstairs…
Stand Up and Slam preview
It is the nature of recent times that many things no longer exist solely in the categories we give them. The concept of genre has progressed from the home artists…
Krater’s Valentine’s Day Special review
Love was in the air at a Valentine’s special of Krater Comedy Club last Wednesday and, despite the pouring rain outside, Komedia was packed full of people to see some…
Simon Amstell: What is This? Review
Simon Amstell came to the Brighton Dome last weekend on his UK stand-up tour: What Is This? The comedian best known for hosting Never Mind the Buzzcocks, is also a…
Stand-Up History Preview
A fun-filled mix of history and comedy is coming to Brighton’s Komedia next week. Dreamt up by Alex Farrow, at the time a History, Politics and R.E. student at Oxford…
Simon Amstell: What is This? Preview
This weekend, critically-acclaimed comedian Simon Amstell will be visiting the Brighton Dome on his UK tour of stand-up show What is This?. Amstell rose to prominence on comedy panel show…
Komedia’s Bent Double Review
I went to see Komedia’s monthly gay-friendly stand-up comedy show Bent Double on the 5th November. The show runs every first Sunday of the month and consists of 3 acts…
BONER KILLER Review
On the 26th October I had the chance to go see Erin Markey’s BONER KILLER at The Marlborough. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a show with such an…
Review: Marc Maron at Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Southbank Centre, London, 04/09/2015
Tonight’s opening act Jarlath Regan (whose own twenty-minute set was admirable, culminating in a crowd-pleasing bit concerning health ‘boot-camps’) introduces Marc Maron by noting that everyone in the room owes…
Interview with Steve-O
Steve-O, the star of MTV show ‘Jackass’, talks to the Badger ahead of his stand-up performance at Brighton Coalition on 7 November. How was Clown College? For me it was…