May 18, 2012 
Brighton Comedy Festival
Brighton Comedy Festival Review: Isy Suttie @ The Old Market, Hove
Last night the musical comedienne Isy Suttie brought her heart-warming tale of love and loss to Brighton’s 10th Annual Comedy Festival. Pearl and Dave is the touching story of an internet romance, reignited from the memories of a long-ago holiday at Butlins in Skegness. I had seen Isy Suttie in Peep Show and from what [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Tony Law @ The Old Market Review
Tony Law’s show last night at The Old Market in Hove was the best stand-up show of the Brighton Comedy Festival that I’ve seen. It’s a bold statement, but I’m sticking to it. An off-the-wall oddball Canadian comedian, Tony Law forms his stand-up from self-deprecation and lots of conversations with himself about why his comedy [...]
Isy Suttie’s Pearl and Dave @ The Old Market Theatre TONIGHT
PREVIEW BY KAYLEIGH LEWIS This evening Isy Suttie, or ‘Dobby from Peep Show’ as she often calls herself, will be bringing her hilarious musical stand-up Pearl and Dave to Brighton and Hove. The critically acclaimed comic, previously nominated for two British Comedy Awards, is performing as part of the city’s 10th annual comedy festival. She [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival Review: Margaret Cho @ The Dome, 16th October 2011
Margaret Cho – Way Past Rudimentary Review by Josh Barrie Seeing Margaret Cho live was an experience, to say the least. It’s all very well sitting back on the safety of your sofa watching her do stand-up on a TV show; in the flesh she evoked far more daring. A fair proportion of her content [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Best of the Fest Friday 14th October 2011 Review
Best of the Fest – Friday 14th October 2011 – Brighton Dome Concert Hall Compere: Jarred Christmas David O’Doherty Rich Hall Roisin Conaty Mike Wilmot This Friday (14th October 2011) I was lucky enough to be in the audience for the second of three Brighton Comedy Festival Best of the Fest shows. Five pretty different [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Margaret Cho
The New York Times called her “one of the funniest comedians in America”. The London Evening Standard said she is “An impressive radical voice”! And the Chicago Tribune said she was “honest and raunchy enough to make even Richard Pryor blush”. Now there are three reasons to buy your tickets to see Margaret Cho in [...]
Alex Horne: Seven Years in the Bathroom at Brighton Pavilion Theatre Review
Before the show properly got going, Alex Horne made an effort to stress that this “is not a show, it is a process”. Boy was he right and we were against the clock from the start. Horne manages to take the crowd through an entire life of the average man (79 years) in one hour. [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Tom Stade
Tom Stade is the co-star and co-writer of Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights and has been seen on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow & Stand-Up for the Week. This Canadian comedian is one to see at this year’s Brighton Comedy Festival and he is on his eagerly awaited debut nationwide tour. His magnetic stage presence, irrepressible charm [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Isy Suttie
You may recognise her as Dobby from the hit series Peep Show, however Isy Suttie has been recognised for a long time as a fantastic musical stand up noted for her joyful outlook. Her latest show is dripping with dreams and heartbreak and is the multi-character story of a fictional online romance, told through messages [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Andy Parsons
Now on his third tour of the country Andy Parsons, the star of Mock the Week, is back witth a show full of light and dark with several trademark passionate tirades and a little peek behind the showbusiness curtain. He talks about everything from the Coalition to discovering a pair of underpants in a jar [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Roisin Conaty
She has been crowned the Fosters Comedy Award Winner 2010 for Best Newcomer, and has starred on Russell Howard’s Good News. Roisin Conaty is bringing her second solo show to Broghton entitled: Destiny’s Dickhead. She deconstructs our lives, looking at the things that shape who we are, the choices we make and the random events [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Diane Spencer
This breakout comedy star is fresh from Edinburgh Fringe and her show is open to see at this year’s Brighton Comedy Festival. She tells “a cleverly inter-woven series of dark, edgy and hilarious experiences” (Theatreview) covering one journey home descending into madness. Spencer was awarded as Chortle Best Newcomer 2011, she was nominated for Best [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Micky Flanagan
Micky Flanagan has been selling out his tour across the country and he has been seen on the Royal Variety Performance, Live at the Apollo, Stand Up for The Week and Have I Got News For You. His East-End background is the focus of his stand-up and he spends the show ruthlessly deconstructing the Cockney [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Vikki Stone
Stunning award nominated debut from the ‘lovely and a little bit filthy’ (Time Out) Vikki Stone (Latitude Festival / BBC3) and her uber cool band. Expect brilliant comedy, twisted love songs and even an ode to Jurassic Park. Winner: The Soho Theatre Durex Stand Up Award 2011 Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show Nominee 2011 [...]
Brighton Comedy Festival: Milton Jones
He is the star of the Michael Mcintyre Roadshow, and the voice of 8 series for Radio 4 (including The Very World of Milton Jones and Another Case of Milton Jones) and all sorts of other radio and telly as well. He is the guy from Mock the Week with the strange shirts and his [...]
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