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Celebrating the weird and the wonderfulEdinburgh Fringe 2012Published August 2012 Anna Lowman takes a look at the nominees for the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2012, and determines that the two shortlists are, excitingly, populated by a lovely group of comics this year. Read |
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Alternative Comedy Memorial Society reviewPublished September 2011Anna Lowman reviews ACMS - a fortnightly North London gig hosted and curated by John-Luke Roberts and Thom Tuck. Read |
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Laughing Boy gig reviewPublished September 2011Anna Lowman reviews the Live At The Apollo warm-up gig at the Laughing Boy Comedy Club in London, featuring Mark Watson, Andi Osho, Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi, Jason Byrne and Andrew Maxwell. Read |
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Comedy Gold club night in Angel - reviewPublished July 2011Anna Lowman reviews a night at Comedy Gold, which is in the Angel area of London. With James Redmond, Matt Kirshen, Pippa Evans, headliner Tom Stade and Daniel Rigby as MC. Read |
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Pajama Men reviewPublished June 2011Anna Lowman gives a five star review to The Pajama Men... Read |
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The Comedy Crawl 2011: Review 1Published May 2011Anna Lowman has our first review from The Comedy Crawl. It turned out to be a weekend of excellent acts, logistical issues, lovely moments, and a sense of generally good-natured chaos... Read |
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Review: Josie Long and FriendsPublished April 2011Anna Lowman reviews Josie Long and Friends at the Bush Hall. With James Acaster, John-Luke Roberts, Arnab Chanda and Tom Basden. Read |
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Big Sketch Bash reviewPublished March 2011Anna Lowman reviews the Big Sketch Bash at the 100 Club, with Ed Weeks, Totally Tom, Anna & Katy, The Three Englishmen, Pappy's and The Penny Dreadfuls. Review |
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John-Luke Roberts and Thom Tuck interviewPublished March 2011John-Luke Roberts and Thom Tuck talk to Anna Lowman about their new alternative comedy night. Warning: this interview contains a record number of annotations and footnotes. Read |
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Why producers should be fighting over GuttedPublished February 2011Anna Lowman gives five reasons why producers should be getting their wallets out for Gutted, the comedy musical... Read |
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Knock2Bag gig reviewPublished January 2011Anna Lowman reviews a Knock2Bag gig, featuring Colin Hoult, Daniel Simonsen, Cardinal Burns, Neil Dagley, Totally Tom and Paul Foot. Read |
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Gig Review: Live at the ChapelPublished May 2010Anna reviews a Live at the Chapel stand-up gig, starring Tom Basden, Angelos Epithemiou, Sean Hughes and Mark Watson. Read |
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The Ricky Gervais Show - previewPublished February 2010Anna Lowman previews The Ricky Gervais Show, the animated TV series based on the record-breaking podcasts. Read |
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Beyond The Pole reviewPublished February 2010Anna Lowman reviews Beyond the Pole, a British comedy film starring Stephen Mangan and Rhys Thomas. Read |
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James Sherwood reviewPublished January 2010Anna Lowman reviews a 2010 performance by musical comedy performer James Sherwood. Read |
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Christmas Comedy 2009 - How was it for you?Published December 2009Anna Lowman reviews the Christmas specials that were on TV over this festive period in 2009, including Victoria Wood, The Royle Family, Catherine Tate and Outnumbered. Read |
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Tim Key's 'Instructions' book: An attempted reviewPublished December 2009Anna Lowman reviews tautologously titled Tim Key's new book. Read |
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Introducing Anna LowmanPublished December 2009Anna Lowman introduces herself and reveals her favourite comedians, sitcoms and sketch shows. Read |
Brought up on Blackadder, The Fast Show and, er, The High Life, Anna is a comedy fan through and through. A freelance arts critic, she has written about live and TV comedy for various publications including The Guardian, TV Scoop and MusicOMH.com, making her a very lucky lass indeed.
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New Comedy Award 2013
The BBC has launched its New Comedy Award talent-finding initiative for 2013, with entry details now available. Read
Lucy Porter vs. Lemmy
Lucy Porter explains how her life touring stand-up is a bit less rock 'n' roll than Motorhead's Lemmy. Read
ITV's Tommy Cooper drama
David Threlfall, who plays Frank in Shameless, is to portray Tommy Cooper in a new ITV biopic. Read
About Time - Trailer
The trailer for the new movie written by Richard Curtis. It's a romantic comedy featuring some time travel. Watch
Pub Landlord Movie?
Al Murray has revealed he wishes to make a film featuring his pub landlord character. Full story here: Read
The British Film Collection
A look at the impresive Spring & Summer 2013 comedy titles from The British Film DVD collection. Read
Mock The Week - Series 12
Mock The Week will be back in June - and will now be filmed in HD. Here's details on what to expect. Read
Video: Mr Nazi
Did you used to read the Mr Men books? If so, do you remember the adventures of bad Mr Nazi? Watch
Video: Bad Date
A BBC Comedy sketch. Ever been on a bad date? Ever dated a dog? This committed Christian has... Watch
Father Ted - Every Drink
A video featuring every utterance of the word 'drink' in Father Ted. Try and keep count - it's hard! Watch
Galton & Simpson honoured
Celebrated writing duo Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are to be honoured with a blue plaque unveiling in June. Read
Look Of Love interviews
A video of the cast of The Look Of Love, including star Steve Coogan, talking about the new Soho-set film. Watch
What We Did On Our Holiday
Billy Connolly and Ben Miller are amongst the cast for the new film by the writers of Outnumbered. Read