Jerry Sadowitz
- Stand-up comedian and magician
Press clippings
The giggle map of the UK: in comedy, location matters
Ken Dodd, a Liverpudlian, famously tailored his jokes for regional audiences, but do today's entertainers still find their acts go down differently in Bath or Leeds, or Glasgow?
Robert Chalmers, The Observer, 4th May 2025Jerry Sadowitz plans online version of his 1990s TV show
Controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz is planning to launch an online version of his 1990s television series The People Vs. Jerry Sadowitz.
British Comedy Guide, 26th March 2024Jerry Sadowitz says he would quit comedy if he didn't need the cash
Controversial comic talks about cancel culture and says he prefers magic.
Heather Greenaway, Daily Record, 4th March 2024Edinburgh Festival Fringe chiefs say 'difficult and challenging' shows must be allowed on its stages
Senior figures have spoken out in the wake of controversies over venues pulling the plug on several shows this year and last year.
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 25th August 2023Jerry Sadowitz returns to warn that stand-up comedy is 'last bastion of free speech'
Tackling cancel culture, Sadowitz told his Queen's Hall audience: "Graham Linehan has been cancelled, of course. He should be cancelled for Father Ted, which was the most unfunny thing to emerge since the Carry On movies."
Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman, 25th August 2023We went to see Jerry Sadowitz and found it awkward
I had never seen Sadowitz live before, but I had a pretty good idea of what the show would be like before his first joke was cracked.
Kris Gourlay, Edinburgh Live, 24th August 2023Climate crisis and trans rights are talk of Edinburgh festival
Walkout by authors over fossil fuel links plus controversies about identity, racism and sexism are hot topics at politically charged event.
Libby Brooks and Severin Carrell, The Guardian, 20th August 2023Edinburgh Fringe: Anything goes or cancel culture?
"I've never known the Fringe to be so censorious," says comedy critic Kate Copstick. "It's not a nice feeling."
Pauline McLean, BBC, 9th August 2023The shows that might raise heckles during the Edinburgh Festivals
Every Edinburgh festival season has at least one cause célèbre. Which is exactly as it should be.
Mark Brown, The National (Scotland), 29th July 2023Free speech comedy clubs and the battle over onstage offence
Graham Linehan and Dapper Laughs walk into a club ... It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, yet platforming comics who may cause offence is a winning formula. But can a night run by a GB News host claim to be anti-establishment?
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 20th May 2023