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Tim Minchin, Greenwich Comedy Festival - review

06.09.11
The Edinburgh Fringe may be over but for Londoners the comedy season is just starting. Tim Minchin created fireworks with an invigorating greatest hits set at the Greenwich Comedy Festival... more

Hot Tickets - Weekend comedy

29.07.11
Here are the biggest comedy gigs in the capital this weekend...... more

Fringe-style festival kicks off in derelict building

14.07.11
Performers from across London are launching an Edinburgh Fringe-style contemporary arts festival... more

Kevin Eldon is a new superstar with a familiar face

08.02.11
Kevin Eldon has worked with Simon Pegg and Chris Morris and now he stars in a breakout performance... more

Greenland offers a bizarre eco vision

02.02.11
Oh dear. It's rare for the National to come a cropper with new writing but every so often a howler like the late, unlamented Fram or Greenland slips through the quality control nets... more

Edinburgh Fringe - Landing the first blows in Beautiful Burnout and Fair Trade

09.08.10
Off we go again. The Edinburgh Fringe is up and running, noisy, exuberant and varied as ever.... more

Comedians call for better online policing to prevent jokes being stolen

26.07.10
Comedians have appealed to internet users to stop spreading their jokes on websites as they fear it 'erodes' and 'undermines' live shows... more

Dizzee Rascal tops bill at biggest ever Edinburgh Festival

10.06.10
Dizzee Rascal, Britain's Got Talent dance act Flawless and Emma Thompson are among the big names featuring in this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.... more

Truly special show from Flight of the Conchords

17.05.10
Pop parodists Flight of the Conchords might be massive sitcom cults, but it has clearly not made their heads swell.... more

Jihad the Musical feels like an ill-advised student skit

15.01.10
Jihad: The Musical is a monotonous one-joke show, and the joke is not very good... more

Trilogy leaves its audience exhaustedly elated

14.01.10
Trilogy is the kind of audacious, uncompromising, affirmative work that gets under one's skin - and might even change a few lives... more

Naked women hit the stage for feminism

06.01.10
Women are being invited to get on stage and dance naked in front of hundreds of people - to strike a blow for modern feminism... more

Musical that pokes fun at bin Laden on its way to London

21.12.09
A musical about terrorism which caused a furore at the Edinburgh Festival is set to open in London.... more

Janeane Garofalo is compelling company

10.08.09
Edinburgh Comedy: American Janeane Garofalo's run is selling out thanks to her appearances in hit sitcoms such as The Larry Sanders Show.... more

Let’s go. We can’t. Why not? ... We’re still waiting to perform Godot in a public loo

23.07.09
When Harry Michell was refused permission to stage Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot in a public lavatory by the playwright's estate he wanted revenge... more

Udderbelly will have us laughing all the way to Southbank

27.05.09
A new comedy festival in a cow-shaped tent by the Thames aims to bring some Edinburgh spirit to London.... more

Anglo-Irish madness in Walworth Farce

25.09.08
Mikel Murfi's chronically boisterous production of The Walworth Farce remains true to the title with its characterising notes of grotesquerie.... more

Eurobeat is popfest parody par excellence

04.09.08
Whether you are a Eurovision fan, you will love this spoof: Eurobeat, coming to the West End after being a huge hit at last year's Edinburgh Fringe.... more

Jason Byrne levels things out

28.08.08
Jason Byrne was on showstopping form with his reflections on the problems of keeping romance alive on the opening night of Pimms Summerfest.... more

Did you hear the one about the Edinburgh comedy prize?

20.08.08
There was an Englishman, an Irishman, a Welshman and a couple of Americans on the shortlist for the Edinburgh Fringe's top comedy award ... more

All in the title for Deborah Frances-White

09.07.08
Calling your show How To Get Almost Anyone To Want To Sleep With You: The Advanced Class sells tickets, as Deborah Frances-White proved. ... more

Playing the tables

07.11.07
The Tricycle is hardly the ideal venue for an intimate show like The Table, but this Polish conceit is still a clever, surprising delight.... more

Laughs a plenty, but not a sniff of nudity

14.08.07
Based on the 1970s porn flick, Debbie Does Dallas is very funny with heaps of smutty jokes and superb performances from an enthusiatic cast.... more

Ants that blow you away

09.08.07
Idiots of Ants are not sick, dark or fashionably twisted, they are just very, very funny, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Close encounter with a Rolling Stones obsessive

06.08.07
If Phil Nichol's latest Edinburgh set does not top last year's turbo-charged tale, which culminated in the sweaty Canadian body-surfing naked over the audience, it is a pretty serviceable sequel.... more

Critic's choice: Top comedy shows

02.08.07
Edwardian-themed sketches from The Ornate Johnsons, the Camden Fringe and Mock The Week's Andy Parsons are among the top comedy choices.... more

Comedian offers a sneak preview

22.06.07
Funnyman and presenter of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Simon Amstell, previews his Edinburgh Fringe routine in the capital on Monday June 25... more

Making fast work of the Bard

22.06.07
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) moves at a cracking pace which sees 37 plays covered in just 97 minutes... more

Italian is still in fashion

30.10.06
It's remarkable that up-market Italian Quirinale has survived as long as it has, but this is one of the few institutions in the Westminster Village that deserves to stay in fashion.... more


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