Improv America

Five Characters in Search of Susan

Review of the last live comedy show I saw…

Five Characters in Search of Susan is an energetic hour of character comedy written and performed by character comic Susan Harrison. It’s a much darker and more bizarre show than I was expecting but all the better for that fact. I like my comedy quite broad and there were moments which I felt could have been edited a bit, as they were a bit wordy, but on the whole I thought More

You should see Dane Cook live!

If you have never had the opportunity to see Dane Cook live you should really do it. His recorded comedy is really entertaining but nothing compared to live. I thought I had as high of an opinion as you could get of Dane Cook as a comedian. I will agree that some of his comedy can border on being offensive instead of funny. Some of it I’m not sure whether I should laugh or be offended.

I think that is More

Why Chris Rock Is A Great Comedian

Chris Rock’s popularity has not waned for over two decades, and for good reason. Even after all these years, his material continues to be fresh yet he doesn’t “sell out”. His comedic style has remained for such a long time, and his material never seems to get old, from everyday things to gags about financial advice.

However, one of Chris Rock’s best tools is his ability to take racism and make it funny. His use of this touchy subject More

Improv Profile: Jeff Dunham

A lot has been said all over the improv world about ventriloquist Jeff Dunham and there is a reason for this. Dunham is a comic from the United States and is widely viewed as an Internet phenomenon. It has been estimated that more than 300 million viewers have seen his many clips on U-tube. This popularity ranks his clips as among the top ten most watched clips of all time.
He is not as widely known in the UK and More

Review: Richard Herring: Hitler Moustache

Richard Herring’s present comedy show has a joke that seem to be recurring and it has to do with the fact that he has been sporting a Hitler-style moustache he grew himself for over a year now. He has done this just to make a glib point. Whether you agree with him or not the point is respected.

Yet this funny man is really pushing the line as he ran the risk of angering his friends and family, Jews, and More

A troll Without Limits

That’s right people, we’re talking about that loveable troll-man Bill Bailey! What could anyone possibly have against this unorthodox, witch-haired, beer-bellied little genius? (Assuming you don’t have a passionate phobia of small men who look like trolls—and witches—then I can’t see there’d be a thing you could hold against him.)

That joke aside and more jokes considered, Bill Bailey isn’t going to win any awards for his looks–or his big starey eyes which look out at the audience with devious More

Comedy Review: Sarah Millican

It’s been said a hundred times before and I’m going to say it again because it’s that ridiculous, really: why are there so few female comedians on the comedy circuit right now? A few years ago the world was positively brimming with talent. Nowadays female comedians seem to be getting few and far between; not only that, but reviews are often mixed, with many critics saying that they just can’t hack it against their male competitors.

I don’t agree with More

The Motherland

So you may ask, why is it that I decided to go treking all over America to find the best places to stand on stage and make stuff up? And you are right to ask, after all my mother does everyday…

And the answer my friend is the glowing, golden palace that we like to call The Second City. I have been wanting to come here for as long as I could remember, or at least a couple years…and I have finally done it! That’s right, I have acheived everything that I have sought out to do and now can die happy…

That is just an example of one of the things that I will be talking about in this blog. Not right now though, right now I am going to the pub!

Watch this space!