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Upstart Crow review
Gadzooks! After some high-profile flops in both hemispheres, Ben Elton has rediscovered his mojo... and all it took was a return trip to Elizabethan England.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th May 2016Preview: Upstart Crow
Never mind Leicester winning the league, what odds would you have got on Ben Elton being funny again? But hold the front page: Elton has got his mojo back. Well, everything is relative. After his appalling The Wright Way it looked like the acclaimed comic might never make us laugh again. But he has done it with Upstart Crow, which, let's not mince words, is Blackadder Does The Bard.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th May 2016Is Upstart Crow as good as Blackadder?
Ben Elton - the writer of both shows, who has been pilloried for a lot of his recent work including the fairly dire The Wright Way - is clearly returning to his strengths. And I would say this does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder, the brilliant comedy he co-wrote with Richard Curtis, because it is very good.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 3rd May 2016Review: Jason Cook's Comedy Club
I've genuinely never laughed as much as I did at last night's offering of Jason Cook's Comedy Club.
Vicki Newman, The Sunderland Echo, 3rd April 2016Review: Gilded Balloon comedy night - November
Reviews of Scott Gibson, Keara Murphy, Chris Forbes and Rob Rouse.
Tabatha Glancy, TV Bomb, 4th December 2015Gilded Balloon Comedy (November) review
Review of Keara Murphy, Chris Forbes and Rob Rouse.
Damo Bullen, Mumble Comedy, 8th November 2015Fringe Q&As: Rob Rouse
Rob Rouse talks to us about catheters, crushed Twixes, and swimming in the North sea.
The Herald, 8th August 2014Comedy review: Rob Rouse, Glasgow
Maybe it's a case of the subject matter impacting on the delivery but there's little verve or anything extraordinary in his tales of his children persecuting him.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 5th April 2014Rob Rouse: Comedy? It's not a career, it's an illness
Having children has changed comedian Rob Rouse. He's at the park when we call. Not down the pub, like life used to be.
Leicester Mercury, 18th April 2013Review: Rob Rouse at Firebug, Leicester
Rob Rouse may have entered the stage in an all denim ensemble - a complete no no in my book - but his heart-warming act had me chuckling away from the start.
Fiona Dryden, Leicester Mercury, 25th February 2013