It’s normally a good sign to leave a comedy night in pain. So, with diaphragmatic and facial aching, I left the Library pub and hours later found myself reliving the highlights of the Tealights comedy […]
Review – Live at the Riley
As it’s my third year in sunny Leeds it seems to be the right time to experience some of the more bespoke nightlife this wonderful city has to offer. Live at the Riley wasn’t off […]
Review: The Leeds Tealights – Stunning and original student comedy
The Leeds Tealights have long established themselves as a force to be reckoned with, having plenty of 5-star reviews under their belts; they haven’t let this faze them though, and their new show ‘Rebirth’ was […]
Start your weekend off with an unmissable night of comedy
York Barbican will be hosting a night of comedy on Friday 11th November from 8pm. The Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club event will star international TV comedians Daliso Chaponda, Duncan Oakley and Adam Staunton. Here’s what you can […]
Stand-up stars at Leeds City Varieties
Shappi Khorsandi Ten years after her breakthrough performance at the Fringe, Shappi Khorsandi (Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow) is bringing her show ‘Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to Morrissey’ to Leeds. […]
Kimmy Schmidt: Still unbreakable
After fifteen years of being trapped in an underground bunker for the fake end of the world, Kimmy (Vietnamese slang for penis) has adjusted well to life in New York. She’s having normal mid-20’s problems […]
Will Arnett’s ‘Flaked’: Devastatingly disappointing
When I first heard that Netflix was releasing a new original series, I was excited – after all, there’s nothing better than a new show to binge watch when I should really be working on […]
Fresh Meat: Not fresh, just charred
The final run of Channel 4’s undergraduate comedy came lumbering out of the starting blocks onto our screens this Monday past. With stunted pacing, rehashed subplots and an overshooting of the same erratic cynicism that […]
Love: Enough to melt your heart
Created by Judd Apatow, Love is a satirical, quirky, imperfect representation of modern-day relationships. Perhaps in some ways comparable another Netflix original, Master of None starring Aziz Ansari, it seeks to create an authentic, glamour-free […]
My kind of cop-out: Brooklyn 99 season 2
Although it’s actually in the middle of airing its third season over in the US, the award-winning comedy series Brooklyn 99 is back all-guns-blazing with season two, available on Netflix for those of us still […]
F is for not quite Feeling it
What is there to say about F is for Family, the new animated Netflix original comedy created by Bill Burr? That’s a hard question. The year is 1973. Baggage handler Frank Murphy is a typical […]
Comedy: Leeds Tealights – Laughter Fills The Library
Returning from an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Leeds Tealights were back again on home soil. Expectations were high for the comedy sketch group which has seen the returning Stephen Rainbird teaming up […]