Comedy

Eddie Izzard will use the language of laughter in Europe

Izzard to invade France

Comedian known for surreal skits to perform a one-man show in French.

Inside Comedy

Bill Bailey: "I hardly watch television. I have a child, Dax, four, who requires a lot of entertaining"

Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind, Wyndham's Theatre, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Monday, 15 November 2010

Comedian's show fails to fully flower

Peter Kay: The Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour, 02, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Mum's happy, not sure about the rest of us

Food for thought: Stewart Lee on stage in London

Stewart Lee: Vegetable Stew, Leicester Square Theatre, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Sharp show is souped up with jokes

<b>Al Murray</b> The comedian was educated at Bedford School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read modern history and started performing comedy. <b>William Thackeray</b> was educated at Charterhouse School, among others, providing the inspiration for his 1847 social satire, Vanity Fair

Al Murray: Through the looking glass

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Think the Pub Landlord is a close relative of his creator? Think again. Ian Burrell meets a multilingual, renaissance pint-puller

Ardal O'Hanlon, Richmond Theatre, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

"To wake the soul by the tender strokes of art" runs the quote from Alexander Pope on the proscenium arch of the Richmond Theatre. Ardal O'Hanlon has a reasonable go and finds that most souls are awake for his second half, if not all for his first.

Making waves: Michael McIntyre's stint glided blissfully along

Brighton Comedy Festival Gala, Brighton Dome (Rated 3/ 5 )

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Brighton rocks with laughter

Frankie Boyle's My Shit Life So Far is a refreshing antidote to the usual feelgood books by TV stars

Frankie Boyle: I Would Happily Punch Every One of You in the Face, New Theatre, Oxford (Rated 3/ 5 )

Monday, 11 October 2010

Who better, I thought, to shake us out of credit-crunch fatigue and the cuts commotion than the scything Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle?

Manic mode: Jonathan Ross quizzes Russell Brand

Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, Hackney Empire, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Monday, 4 October 2010

They were once "two idiots dancing toward a canyon" and tonight Russell Brand, who coined that phrase on his last live tour, and Jonathan Ross were reunited publicly for the first time since Sachsgate.

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