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Archive for the 'Stand Up Reviews 2006' Category

[Review] - Nick Mohammed

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Nick Mohammed - The Forer Factor
A one man character sketch show, Nick Mohammed begins The Forer Factor by miming — somewhat poorly — to a pre-recorded audio monologue track before introducing the audience to a variety of his live characters. The namesake of Nick Mohammed’s performance is not fully explored and seems an afterthought to [...]

[Review] Grandmotherfucker

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

The sassiness of the show title belies the endearing fragility of this highly strung, warm, likeable New Yorker. Subtle and bawdy by turns, Canderas mulls over the traumas of childhood in a dysfunctional Irish Catholic family; her “quest to be a regular lady”; and finally coping with life as an older widow whose sexuality [...]

[Review] Ricahrd Herring

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Tired variations of: xenophobia, mysogyny, onanism and homophobia.
Gaye Belle

[Review] Comic Abuse

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Go see this show if for no other reason than the pleasure seeing three promising youngsters. It’s like seeing a clip of Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and the likes from their turn at the Fringe: skills and charms oozing from every poor and careers in the making from the word go.
Robert Peel, JackWhitehall and Charlotte [...]

[Review] Reginald D Hunter - Pride and Prejudice (and Niggas)

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Hunter is an engaging and skilfull storyteller, and this show had people rolling in their seats more or less from start to finish. He’s an African-American now living in London, and was good-naturedly resigned to regularly being mistaken for one of (the small number of) the UK’s other famous black men, accused every other [...]

[Review] Omar Marzouk & Mette Lisby – Cartoon Heroes, Drawing a Line (from Denmark in English)

Friday, August 4th, 2006

Mette started this set of “two halves” with an onslaught on cultural foibles in her “comedy of conscience” – a strong start to a solid set including a bit of anthem singing and some very funny physical comedy to really grab everyone.
She displayed guts: The leader of the Taliban should respect his mother as without [...]