Veronica Lee
- Journalist
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The Drive-In Club, review
Daniel Sloss (***) quickly up to speed but Dom Joly (**) has 'the first car crash at a drive in'.
Veronica Lee, i Newspaper, 6th July 2020Review: UK's first drive-in comedy shows
It was a weary and frustrated Dom Joly (**) who left the stage after performing the first drive-in comedy show in the UK. Sadly it had been, as he said earlier, "the first car crash at a drive-in". At the later show, Daniel Sloss (***), with strong support from Kai Humphries, fared much better.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 4th July 2020Desiree Burch, Soho Theatre On Demand review
Burning Man, sex, race - and LSD.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 25th May 2020Lockdown Comedy 2: where to get your laughs this week
Live stand-up recordings and podcasts.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 18th May 2020Lockdown Comedy 1: where to get your laughs this week
Live stand-up, podcasts and not the Eurovision Song Contest.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 27th April 2020After Life series 2, Netflix review
Ricky Gervais's study of bereavement continues.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 25th April 2020Aditi Mittal, Soho Theatre On Demand review
I've no doubt that much of Mittal's material would mark her out as a free thinker, even transgressive, in India, in what is still a nascent comedy scene, but in the UK it seems rather tame.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 22nd April 2020Simon Amstell, Netflix review
Who knew in the early days of his career, when Simon Amstell was taking the mick out of celebrities on Popworld and then Never Mind the Buzzcocks, that he would turn into one of the cleverest comics of his generation, with a special talent for making existential angst funny? And now the latest of his amusing navel-gazing stand-up shows is Set Free (recorded late last year).
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 14th April 2020Rachel Fairburn, Go Faster Stripe review
Feminism and unlikely heroes.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 6th April 2020Lazy Susan, Soho Theatre On Demand review
Sketch duo's ingeniously plotted show.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 3rd April 2020