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High hopes for Michael McIntyre and Alan Carr at Comedy Awards

18.11.09
Family comedy Outnumbered is leading the way at this year's British Comedy Awards, bagging five nominations.... more

Outnumbered is nominated in five categories at comedy awards

18.11.09
Family comedy Outnumbered is leading the way at this year’s British Comedy Awards, bagging five nominations... more

Gervais and Dawkins' alternative Christmas

19.12.08
What next, Stephen Hawking at Jongleurs? Surprise guest Ricky Gervais got a warm welcome but writer Richard Dawkins was the real star. ... more

Shades of Blackadder in Elizabeth & Raleigh

15.10.08
It is impossible to produce an irreverent historical comedy without inviting comparisons with Blackadder and Elizabeth & Raleigh knows it.... more

Mixed bag at Latitude

21.07.08
Latitude, this year proving itself as much an arts as a music festival, has doubled in size since its tentative beginning in 2006.... more

DVDs of the week

15.07.08
Deep questions rumble in There Will Be Blood, I'm Not There requires multiple viewings and Stewart Lee makes us laugh.... more

One of a kind

28.04.08
The slimmer, newly divorced Johnny Vegas was still the same savage tornado of shameless self-loathing, bitterness and regret at Stewart Lee's show.... more

An angry voice from the back of the poll

15.11.07
Stewart Lee's Soho Theatre show will make you laugh and also think, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Critic's Choice: Top 5 Comedy

27.09.07
Comedy heavyweights Ricky Gervais, Frank Skinner, Richard Herring and Russell Brand are all doing their stuff - along with excellent reformed '80s act Skint Video. ... more

Comics answer the call to arms

24.09.07
Satirist Mark Thomas assembled a formidable supporting cast for a charity fundraising event at the Carling Apollo.... more

Like a fine wine, Herring improves with age

15.08.07
Richard Herring delivers his best Edinburgh show yet, while Stewart Lee is as interesting as ever.... more

Hammer of the Scots

09.08.07
Stewart Lee's tale of Dr Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell attempting to relaunch their books today is Fringe theatre at its silly, clever, fun-filled best.... more

Wit and wisecracks by the sea

16.07.07
With stars like Bill Bailey, Phill Jupitus, Michael McIntyre, Robin Ince and Alan Carr performing, there was laughter all round at Suffolk's Latitude Festival.... more

Critic's choice: top five comedy

12.07.07
It's festival mania this weekend with Bill Bailey, Alan Carr, Stewart Lee, Reg Hunter, Michael McIntyre and Richard Blackwood all taking the stage at shows across London and the south.... more

Critic's choice: top five comedy

07.06.07
Mark Thomas is at the Tricycle, Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Al Murray all line-up at the Lyric Hammersmith, and Daniel Kitson kicks off the Sunday season of al fresco gigs this weekend.... more

A comedian that's too Irish

16.05.07
Veteran County Tyrone stand-up Kevin McAleer's show Chalk and Cheese will not turn him into the next Ricky Gervais, but its understated absurdism certainly deserves a wider audience.... more

Critic's choice: top comedy shows

03.05.07
A UK answer to American Def Comedy shows, Perrier-nominated feisty Aussie Sarah Kendall and the Brighton Festival Fringe all make Bruce Dessau's comedy picks of the week.... more

Give us more Arthur

30.04.07
Crumpled comedy legend Arthur Smith effortlessly brought smiles to a Hackney Empire crowd. Bruce Dessau just wished the aging slacker had spent more time onstage.... more

Thoughtful Herring still a big fish

02.04.07
Richard Herring's 21st show - Mènage a Un - is a cerebral set about linguistic subversion, 'loneliness, onlyness and onanism' and sex.... more

Critic's choice: top comedy shows

29.03.07
Frenetic sketches from Laurence & Gus, Nick Doody putting the boot in on organised religion, and magic tricks from Ross Noble look-a-like Pete Firman are all among Bruce Dessau's comedy picks.... more

Critic's choice: top comedy shows

22.03.07
This weekend's comedy highlights include Jo Brand, Stewart Lee and Mark Thomas raising money in aid of democracy for Burma, and DJ Danny nailing the ludicrous jargon of dance music.... more

Celebration of offbeat laughs

07.02.07
Phill Jupitus, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring were among the comedians performing to raise money to put surreal Midlands comic Ted Chippington's early work on CD.... more

Critic's choice: Top five comedy shows

01.02.07
A Richard Pryor-ish Reginald D Hunter and Kevin Bridges, a man being called the new Billy Connolly, are among Bruce Dessau's comedy picks.... more

Menage A Un stretched too far

31.01.07
While original wit was not entirely absent, Bruce Dessau felt an over-long set with tangible flabbiness stopped Richard Herring's show gaining momentum.... more

Take me out: The best weekend events

18.01.07
Sound artist Ray Lee will freak you out at the Shunt Vaults, comedian Stewart Lee does a controversial version of the gospels and a pop-up ice bar can be found at Canary Wharf.... more

Standing up to be counted

12.01.07
In this double bill, Mark Ravenhill's satirical look at 9/11 hits the mark while Stewart Lee's take on Jesus's betrayer is a little too light.... more

Vicar's son bemoans his fete

10.01.07
James Sherwood would generate better material if he got angry - rather than mildly miffed - at his religious targets, thinks Bruce Dessau.... more

Keeping the faith

10.01.07
Even though it raises wry smiles rather than belly laughs, Sharon Lougher thinks Pat Condell's show about faith is well worth a look.... more

Critic's choice: Top five comedy shows

21.12.06
Check out Robert Newman's satire No Planet B, Reginald D Hunter's controversial but outstanding monologue continues and there's a final chance to catch Stewart Lee's must-see show.... more

A disappointing Christmas comedy package

18.12.06
There isn't much to giggle about in this hour of new, Christmas-themed sketches from quintet comedy ensemble The Ornate Johnsons, says Sharon Lougher.... more

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