Rating: LOCO, London’s premium comedy film festival is back for its 5th year and looks set to be the biggest yet, packed with premieres, director Q&As and unique events. For the first time, the festival is programmed over twelve days,…
Rating: Lily Tomlin returns to her first lead role in 27 years with an unapologetic, hilarious depiction of an ageing lesbian poet who has to help her granddaughter find money for an abortion. Writer/Director Paul Weitz wrote the part specifically…
Jonathan is the co-founder and programmer for the LOCO London Comedy Film Festival. He dropped by the office to chat to Niki Alexandrou about the festival, comedy films and how to get your submissions in for the 2016 LOCO festival….
If you’re going to blank and forget your lines three times in a stand-up set, you really want to hope that your audience like you. Thankfully, Sara Pascoe had nothing to worry about there, and while it may seem unfair…
For his first ever hour long set, Phil Jerrod could be in worse places than his home town of Brighton, where an appreciative and supportive audience packs out the Komedia Studio Bar. Having only been performing stand-up since 2012, Jerrod…
Katherine Ryan doesn’t give a fuck. Or a shit. I know this because she told us more than once during her set, as another punchline tore through the room and registered on startled faces and in gasping gales of laughter,…
“With material this accessible it’s a wonder I’m not playing the bigger rooms”, Robert Newman self deprecatingly quips, about 20 minutes into his New Theory Of Evolution show. But while it may not be an arena, The Old Market is…
Rating: It is about 2am and I am sitting under a comfortingly huge tree, eating a pizza, on my own. (It is a really nice pizza, too – as they tend to be when you realise you haven’t eaten for…
This week, Green Man festival announced their day-by-day stage line-ups, and – damn it – it has thrown up a few conundrums. Slint or East India Youth? The War On Drugs or Panda Bear? Neutral Milk Hotel or Kurt Vile,…