Dominic Maxwell
- Journalist
Press clippings Page 19
Shazia Mirza review
She has plenty of fiercely held views and knows how to structure a joke. Repeatedly, though, she fails to be imaginative or surprising.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 1st May 2018Comedy review: Michael McIntyre at the Manchester Arena
Somehow, his very facility with funniness makes him endearing rather than exhilarating -- yet was I ever bored in his company? Never.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23rd April 2018Comedy review: Mo Gilligan at Leicester Square Theatre
The 30-year-old social media star has bags of charisma and great promise.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 18th April 2018Comedy review: Simon Evans at the Soho Theatre, W1
Here's an intelligent, reliably funny show that nods to everything from John Ruskin to PornHub to Ivan Turgenev's two-kilo brain.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 26th March 2018Comedy review: Dara O Briain
One of O Briain's less ambitious evenings is also one of his most straightforwardly enjoyable ones.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 9th March 2018Comedy review: Mark Steel at Hertford Theatre
The Radio 4 comedian goes into the aftermath of his divorce with too many digressions, but his inventiveness and mimicry save the day.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 20th February 2018Comedy review: Bill Bailey at the Barbican, York
If you saw his masterful previous show, you'll enjoy all this larking about while knowing it's a notch below Bailey at his unpredictable best.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 5th February 2018Review: Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan
A celebration of ridiculousness that reduces the simplest elements of office life to outright absurdity.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 10th January 2018Comedy review: Rob Newman at Soho Theatre, W1
The show, Total Eclipse of Descartes, should sink under the weight of its highfalutin ideas. Yet it has a salving sense of mischief.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 10th January 2018Review: Andy Zaltzman at the Soho Theatre, W1
The self-deprecating goofiness in which he wraps his big ideas needs more focus if he's to stay the right side of shambling.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 2nd January 2018