Press clippings Page 15
Sara Pascoe interview
The comedian on intimacy, teenage shoplifting and why she hates music.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 28th July 2018Sara Pascoe to host Comic Relief gig
Comic Relief is to stage a gig at the Edinburgh Fringe on Monday 20th August. Sara Pascoe will host, with the line-up also featuring Rachel Parris, Nina Conti and more.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd July 2018The 30 best living comedians
In the run-up to the Edinburgh Festival our comedy critic Dominic Maxwell ranks the funniest comics working now.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 21st July 20188 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown review
A champagne-fuelled joy.
Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 13th July 2018TV: 8 Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown All-Female Edition
Never mind coming a long way since women got the vote, we've come a long way since a few years ago when women were seen as token females on quiz shows and TV decided that a woman should be on every panel.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th July 2018The 50 best podcasts of 2018
From Julia Davis's dark comedy Dear Joan to track-by-track teardown Dissect, Marc Maron to Meat and beyond, here are this year's finest audio offerings.
Hannah J Davies, Hannah Verdier and Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 30th June 2018The reasoning behind this female-only special seems spurious, but there's no denying the talent. Sara Pascoe and Roisin Conaty feature, but perhaps most exciting is US comedian Michelle Wolf, fresh from her Trump-baiting triumph at the White House correspondents' dinner.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 2nd June 2018The Horne Section Television Programme preview
When Dave commissions a proper series - and let's hope they do - an hour will be fine.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th May 2018With Theresa May still clinging rigidly to the frozen cliff face, as imagined in the best monologue from last year's episodes, Frankie Boyle returns with more standup, discussion and audience interaction. Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan and Mona Chalabi compete with the host's verbal grenades.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 18th May 2018BBC Comedy Shorts 2018 review
If the BBC's Comedy Shorts seasons is intended as a testbed for possible new series, the comedians in this year's class seem to have missed the email. For although one or two have repeat potential, none feel like pilots in the conventional sense. Rather they are self-contained short films, and all the more satisfying for that.
Chortle, 14th May 2018