Jay Richardson
- Journalist
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Eddie Izzard review
The comedian's decision to revisit four decades of comedy hits doesn't entirely pay off.
Jay Richardson, The Telegraph, 12th November 2023BBC New Comedy Award 2023 final review
Who the judges crowned winner, you'll just have to wait until next week's broadcast of the contest to find out.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 7th November 2023John Robins review
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner insists that happiness isn't worth striving for in a set about stoicism, sobriety and slotted spoons.
Jay Richardson, The List, 31st October 2023The Big Fab Comedy Show review: Mixed bill with varied results
Performances from Rosco McClelland, Chris Forbes, Liam Farrelly, Thanyia Moore and headliner Catherine Bohart.
Jay Richardson, The List, 31st October 2023Leith Comedy Festival review
Despite arriving barely a month after the finish of the Edinburgh Fringe, the inaugural Leith Comedy Festival has a distinct flavour of its own, boding well for the future of the boutique weekend event.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 9th October 2023Brian Butterfield: Placeholder Name Tour review
Peter Serafinowicz is in there somewhere as his bewildered entrepreneur looms towards an impending catastrophe.
Jay Richardson, The List, 27th September 2023Jenny Eclair: Sixty Plus! (FFS!) comedy review
With 40 years of stage experience behind her, this 90s Perrier Award winner is batty, filthy and pithy in equal measure.
Jay Richardson, The List, 22nd September 2023Malcolm Hardee Awards 2023 winners
Phil Ellis, John Fleming and Julia Masli have won the 2023 Malcolm Hardee Award trophies.
British Comedy Guide, 27th August 2023Jack Whitehall on fatherhood: 'I'm in danger of turning my family into a posh version of the Kardashians'
With a film career on the up and fatherhood on the near horizon, life seems pretty sweet for Jack Whitehall. Ahead of a two-night Fringe stint, the arena-filling comic shares his thoughts with us on nepo parents, being graphic on US TV, and trying to avoid becoming the new Kardashians.
Jay Richardson, The List, 17th August 2023Dane Baptiste on the Fringe: 'The festival is discriminatory to people of a certain extraction'
The long-standing comic talks to us about impending fatherhood, frustration over unfulfilled TV projects, and what grinds his gears about Edinburgh in August.
Jay Richardson, The List, 14th August 2023