Stuart Laws
- English
- Actor, writer, director, producer, editor and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 7
Is Facebook killing online comedy?
Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced major changes to the social network's algorithm. "You'll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands and media," he wrote in, predictably, a Facebook status. "The public content you see ... should encourage meaningful interactions between people."
Less than two weeks later, longstanding comedy video website Funny or Die made another round of redundancies, after laying off roughly 30% of its staff in 2016. The website's CEO, Mike Farah, vented his frustration, tweeting: "There is simply no money in making comedy online any more. Facebook has completely destroyed independent digital comedy."
Ben Williams, The Guardian, 8th March 2018Tone of Voice: Comedians Improve Advertising review
Advertising, ideally, finds a single message and pursues it relentlessly and efficiently. No such effectiveness with this new comedy night based on the business, however, which has a good central idea but is way too rough around the edges to pay off properly.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th January 2018Interview: 'The Journey' cast and writer
Break-ups on holiday are stressful. Break-ups on a spaceship would be astronomically more painful, with no way of leaving, hiding or escaping the conflict. The Journey, an upcoming play at Pleasance, presents a couple dealing with relationship issues while inconveniently trapped in space.
Laura Brown, The National Student, 21st November 2017Audible offers 12 free stand-up shows
Audible has released for free a collection of 12 shows of stand-up they recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe. Stars include Ed Gamble, Mark Watson and Angela Barnes.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd October 2017Short Com podcast: Stuart Laws
Stuart Laws interview.
Short Com, 21st August 2017Stuart Laws: Edinburgh Fringe 2017 interview
A favourite of Laugh Out London for several years now, Stuart Laws has a dynamism and energy that can get any audience on board with his often absurd streams of thought.
Laugh Out London, 5th August 2017Coming of Age
There's a certain child like spirit that drives the imagination and creativity of comedians, who are more curious than most to find the silliness in everyday objects and behaviours to embellish them out on a stage to near perfect strangers, that makes one think are these people grown up in comparison to their audiences?
Short Com, 31st July 2017Interview: rarely asked questions - Stuart Laws
Stuart Laws is a comedy multi-tasker par excellence.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th July 2017BWW Q&A- Stuart Laws
Stuart Laws interview.
Natalie O'Donoghue, Broadway World, 6th July 2017#EdFringe17: Stuart Laws Stops
Enjoy 15 minutes of stand up and chat with Stuart Laws. What do you do with a bad review? Forget it? Or use it to market the rest of your run? Featuring excerpts from Stuart's 2015 solo show, Stuart Laws. Who said anything about stopping it?
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 1st July 2017