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The Evening Standard demands an end to the practice of burying children and babies in mass paupers’ graves
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It’s Day’s night, and no one is going to spoil her story
A Sentimental Journey
Film
This is a shocking, replenishing film, not to be missed
Green Zone
Restaurants
It is great that Bruno Loubet is back — and at prices that are eminently fair
Bistro Bruno Loubet
The action and direction are superb and the acting good, but the plot is so pathetic it defies belief
Wonderful - beautifully acted and gloriously funny, particularly Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw
Probably the most important photography exhibition london has ever seen
London,
15.03.10
You can take the comedian out of the holiday camp but you can’t take the holiday camp out of the comedian. At least not Lee Mack, anyway.
04.03.10
Jerry Sadowitz, comedy’s most masterful misanthrope-cum-magician skilfully dissects offensiveness while also being provocatively offensive.
16.02.10
The Bubble with David Mitchell is the latest comedy panel show to hit our screens — why are there so many, asks Bruce Dessau.
12.02.10
Tim Key is a comedy perfectionist, who justifiably won the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award.
05.02.10
Marcus Brigstocke can claim to be ahead of this curve, having debunked divinity on Radio 4’s The Now Show for some time.
26.01.10
Comedy buffs with a taste for the harmlessly absurd will be charmed by Ed Aczel.
22.01.10
On paper, Ava Vidal has the makings of a superb comedian. Onstage, however, the sum of these parts results in a mildly engaging show rather than an...
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19.01.10
If Monday was supposed to be the gloomiest day of the year, nobody informed The Comedy Store
06.01.10
Billy Connolly's three-week run at the Hammersmith Apollo gets under way with the Big Yin holding his own like an ageing prizefighter
04.01.10
It is worth noting that club comedians offer excellent entertainment and Adam Bloom is a case in point
17.12.09
London's comedy clubs are quite simply the world’s best stamping ground for aspiring young stand-ups, says Bruce Dessau.
16.12.09
Inside Sandi Toksvig’s yuletide variety spectacular there is a terrific show. One simply has to find it.
15.12.09
While Ennio Marchetto's is a modest set-in-a-suitcase show compared to Arturo Brachetti's epic, there is much to enjoy.
14.12.09
A masterclass in stand-up being more than just a bag of gags and a top gear performance from driven comedian Stewart Lee.
11.12.09
Critics have struggled to describe Pajama Men ever since the duo started venturing from their base in New Mexico.
10.12.09
Comedian-cum-artist Kim Noble calls himself an entertainer during his show, but moments of shiny-suited levity are few and far between.
04.12.09
It was no surprise that the biggest roar Eddie Izzard got was when he mentioned his “run” earlier this year.
30.11.09
To borrow some more sporting parlance it is just a shame Jimmy Carr cannot win pretty rather than win ugly.
26.11.09
Hang on to your hats, La Clique is back and ready to leave audiences gasping again.
20.11.09
Somehow, despite the corny filth, Julian Clary's show at the Leicester Square Theatre was a hugely enjoyable romp of a comeback
