Comedy

Uncaged Monkeys, Hammersmith Apollo, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Dubbed "the ugliest tour in showbiz" by Dara O Briain and a gathering for "geeks" and the "disenfranchised" by host Robin Ince, Uncaged Monkeys lets loose a live version of Radio 4's comic look at science, The Infinite Monkey Cage and follows on from Ince's similar science-minded live shows Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People.

Inside Comedy

University of Kent's comedy module celebrates its 10th anniversary

Friday, 13 May 2011

Much has been made, and rightly so, of the prevalence of stand-ups on our screens, airwaves and stages. However, while the phenomenon seems recent the 10th anniversary of the trail-blazing stand-up comedy module of the University of Kent's Drama and Theatre Studies course reminds us that the popularisation of the art form has some history behind it, and suggests that even the post, post-alternative era is all grown-up now.

Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah, Hexagon, Reading (Rated 4/ 5 )

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

The raffish Dylan Moran has, in recent years, dismissed those who have suggested that certain subjects should be off limits to comedy, stressing that stock targets such as the differences between men and women are there to be reinvented. He's right, of course, but watching him tonight I am very conscious of the reinvention rota that seems to have characterised his work over the last few years.

John Cleese: The Alimony Tour, Corn Exchange, Cambridge

Sunday, 8 May 2011

This comic is no more. He is an ex-comic

David Lister: John Cleese's comic genius has gone the way of his marriages

Saturday, 7 May 2011

The Week in Arts

The Jewish youth group that made Sacha Baron Cohen

Saturday, 7 May 2011

Peter Stanford: How did a club for 'hippy Jewish scouts' become an entertainment industry hothouse?

Cultural Life: Doc Brown, comedian

Friday, 6 May 2011

John Cleese Alimony Tour, Corn Exchange, Cambridge (Rated 3/ 5 )

Thursday, 5 May 2011

By Julian Hall

Milton Jones: The Lion Whisperer, Corn Exchange, Cambridge (Rated 3/ 5 )

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

"You didn't fancy a street party either?" quips Radio 4 favourite Milton Jones to his Cambridge audience, perhaps grateful that those who had watched the royal wedding earlier (not a majority according to his quick voice poll) had decided not to forsake punnery for pageantry. Not that an evening with Jones is slumming it; he's arguably comedy royalty after all, king of his own brand of absurd wordplay, occupying a land that borders Tim Vine's equally distinct fiefdom.