Comedy | Chortle Student Comedy Awards
I don’t have a problem with student comedy. It is a fantastic opportunity for those sprightly young things to hone down their act, shirk off the glimmers of Lee Evans or Ricky Gervais the discerning eye might pick up, and really come into their own. I tried my best to avoid playing matchmaker between the [...]
Comedy | Milk the Laughs
Milk the Laughs made their spring debut with a bumper crop of comedy from some familiar faces and some nice shiny new ones. Tealights alumni…
“So are you a People Person?” – An Interview with Lucy Porter
Jennifer Smith speaks with Lucy Porter, ahead of her gig at The Library Pub Lucy Porter’s latest one-woman show, People Person, will appeal to a…
Hidden Gems : Top 10 Summer Arts Festivals
Bored of big-name festivals with less than impressive line-ups? Feed your creativity this summer with something a little out of the ordinary Shambala August 22-25…
‘Learning To Be Funny’ – Students and Comedy
With the Tealights just having dropped the curtain on their second show, and student-led comedy nights cropping up across campus and beyond, Charlotte Duffield questions…
Comedy | Mum, Dad… It’s the Tealights
4/5 stars Following a critically acclaimed summer run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Tealights sketch comedy group…
Comedy | House of Fun
4/5 stars Asserted as ‘the best comedy club in the North’, ‘House of Fun’ certainly didn’t fail to…
Comedy | Mutant Milk
3/5 stars With a name as bizarre and beguiling as ‘Mutant Milk’ I was pretty sure that Leeds’…
Comedy | Pigeon Hole
4/5 stars The words ‘crash and burn’ come to mind when I think of free stand-up combined with…