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Ania Magliano
Comedy

Ania Magliano: On SNL UK you’re contained – stand-up is me unchained

After the intensity of Saturday Night Live – now renewed for a second season – comedian Ania Magliano is unleashing herself on a UK stand-up tour

7 May 2026
Comedy

Stewart Lee at Leicester Square Theatre: laughs layered within laughs

The veteran comedian delivers gags aplenty with his trademark knowing style

23 Jun 2025
Comedy

Rhod Gilbert at Eventim Apollo: 'lashings of dark humour'

The Welsh comedian’s show about his brush with mortality has echoes of early Billy Connolly, he’s that good

13 Jun 2025
Comedy

Greg Davies Full Fat Legend review: 'charisma and earthy vulgarity'

If you have an aversion to toilet humour or jokes about dodgy prostates, this is not the show for you

11 Jun 2025
Comedy

Nish Kumar at Hackney Empire review: polemics with punchlines

The comedian aims his righteous anger at Trump, Musk, Netanyahu and the monarchy in Nish, Don’t Kill My Vibe

27 May 2025
Comedy

Dara Ó Briain's Re: Creation: a supercharged storytelling masterclass

The comedian delivers an emotionally charged and gripping tale of tracking down his birth father

22 May 2025
Comedy

Nick Mohammed at Richmond Theatre: full of sparkly-jacketed charisma

The comedian balances the professional with the personal in a high energy evening that also mixes magic with extended comic set-pieces

17 May 2025
Jack Skipper
Comedy

Jack Skipper at Leicester Square Theatre:

TikTok has brought him fame but his show is classic stand-up

16 May 2025
Griff Rhys Jones
Theatre

Griff Rhys Jones returns to stage in I'm Sorry, Prime Minister

Jones is taking on the part made famous by Paul Eddington and tells us: "Politics ought to be the art of the possible but it seems to be about is the art of the impossible.”

8 May 2025
Comedy

Natalie Palamides at Soho Theatre Walthamstow: fearless clowning

A silly, seductive, slapstick joy is the perfect show to open London’s newest theatrical venue

3 May 2025
Comic Strip presents..
Comedy

Exclusive: Comic Strip Presents…to be screened at Edinburgh Fringe

The legendary TV comedy show The Comic Strip Presents is being celebrated at this year’s Fringe - the driving force behind it, Peter Richardson, tells us all about its groundbreaking and career-making status

30 Apr 2025
Alice Snedden
Comedy

Alice Snedden at Soho Theatre review: wonderfully witty

This is Snedden’s first show in five years - not that you’d know it

24 Apr 2025
Comedy

John Shuttleworth at Bloomsbury Theatre review: gloriously enjoyable

Sheffield’s never-ageing songsmith is pushing 60, but he still has plenty of mileage left in him

16 Apr 2025
Kanwar Crosse and Sam Hall
Comedy

The WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Final: hit all the right notes

It was a pity only one winner could be crowned: this strong line-up boasted so many potential victors

14 Apr 2025
Romesh Ranganathan at the Teenage Cancer Trust gig
Comedy

Teenage Cancer Trust Comedy Night review: 'so many great comics'

Katherine Ryan, Romesh Ranganathan and many more joined host Micky Flanagan for this highlight-filled charity night at the Royal Albert Hall

26 Mar 2025
Comedy

Pierre Novellie at Soho Theatre: brimming with laugh-out-loud lines

The comic deftly blends punchlines with more thought-provoking material on autism and euthanasia

12 Mar 2025
Katherine Ryan
Comedy

Katherine Ryan at the Palladium review: oversharing brilliance

Katherine Ryan delivers caustic takes on marriage and family while finding time to play agony aunt to brave audience members

7 Mar 2025
Harry Hill
Comedy

Harry Hill at Wilton's: like being on drugs without being on drugs

Harry Hill delivers ninety minutes of pure nuttiness

24 Feb 2025
Jason Manford
Comedy

Jason Manford at the Palladium review: hits the sweet spot

Jason Manford delivers a consistently funny set and reveals a peek behind the effort that goes into his effortless observational style

10 Feb 2025
Nina Conti
Comedy

Nina Conti at Richmond Theatre review: a virtuoso ventriloquist

Conti turns people into human puppets in an act which showcases some serious verbal juggling skills

3 Feb 2025
Comedy

Amy Gledhill at Soho Theatre: deserves every plaudit it receives

Freed from the time constraints of the Fringe, Gledhill delivers a heartfelt exploration of self-perception cloaked in a series of stand-out belly laugh routines

29 Jan 2025