Tristram Fane Saunders
- Journalist and reviewer
Press clippings
The 12 top stand-up comedy gigs, tours and festivals to buy tickets for in spring 2024
From Jazz Emus to Wales's smallest (and greatest) comedy festival, these are the hot tickets guaranteed to get you chuckling this spring.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 30th March 2024Lara Ricote review
Big-hearted, grotty show about the messiness of love.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 24th February 2024Tim Key: 'I've written 3,000 poems - it's easy if you've got no quality control'
The comedian on his Valentine's Day poetry collection, Carey Mulligan and being Alan Partridge's 'Sidekick Simon'.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 14th February 2024Miles Jupp review
The old-fogeyish comedian's compelling new stand-up show, On I Bang, unspools his health ordeal with an understated delivery that hits hard.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 17th January 202410 best comedy shows and stand-up tours to book tickets for in 2024
Our pick of the biggest, funniest stand-up shows of the new season, from Rhod Gilbert to Bill Bailey.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 27th December 2023Leila Navabi review
The Welsh comic's joke about Rishi Sunak landed her in hot water - as she recounts in a debut full of charm, originality and promise.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 15th November 2023Michael McIntyre: Macnificent, review
A gift for alchemising everyday absurdities into comedy gold.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 26th October 2023Ahir Shah: Ends review
Meet British stand-up's Next Big Thing.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 17th October 2023Courtney Pauroso review
Following a hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe, American comic Courtney Pauroso brings her brilliant AI clowning to Soho Theatre.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 31st August 2023Is Jack Whitehall too happy right now to be funny?
The plummy comedian has been reliably funny for a long time - but he hasn't much to complain about now, and his material has suffered.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 16th June 2023