Last One Laughing, review: Amazon’s UK version of the comic perennial sticks to the formula 3/5 Benji Wilson 20 Mar 2025, 8:00am
Miss Me?, Hackney Empire, review: Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver dish out gasp-inducing secrets 5/5 Eleanor Halls 7 Mar 2025, 1:48pm
Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish, review: still sweating the small stuff after a seven-year break 4/5 Keith Watson 24 Feb 2025, 10:00pm
SNL 50, review: The anniversary special had Jack Nicholson, Ryan Reynolds and Macca – but few laughs 2/5 Ed Power 17 Feb 2025, 11:13am
Chris McCausland: Yonks!: The Strictly winner proves he’s more than just the greatest dancer 4/5 Stephen Armstrong 15 Jan 2025, 10:19am
Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE ‘Ball & Boe’: The single funniest hour I’ve spent in a theatre all year 5/5 Mark Monahan 18 Dec 2024, 1:23pm
Ricky Gervais, Barbican, York, Mortality tour: Someone has spent too much time online 3/5 Stephen Armstrong 22 Oct 2024, 10:53pm
Katherine Ryan: Comedy’s avenging angel makes Russell Brand squirm 4/5 Stephen Armstrong 13 Sep 2024, 12:50pm
Taskmaster, Channel 4, review: why wasn’t this wonderfully stupid show up for an NTA? 4/5 Anita Singh 12 Sep 2024, 10:01pm
Gaza, Trump, Boris – Nish Kumar has strong (and funny) opinions 4/5 Tristram Fane Saunders 8 Sep 2024, 1:55pm
Edinburgh comedy reviews: the funniest shows at the 2024 Fringe 5/5 Dominic Cavendish 31 Aug 2024, 11:49am
Margolyes & Dickens: Miriam’s filthy one-woman show leaves you wanting more Dickens, less of her 3/5 Dominic Cavendish 8 Aug 2024, 5:23pm
Revenge: After the Levoyah, Edinburgh Fringe, review: outlandish Corbyn-kidnap play is entertainingly overblown 3/5 Dominic Cavendish 3 Aug 2024, 6:10pm
Mhairi Black: the ex-MP promises brutal honesty – but doesn’t deliver 3/5 Tristram Fane Saunders 2 Aug 2024, 6:07pm
Piglets, ITV1 review: police sitcom swerves politics but isn’t a patch on Police Academy 2/5 Anita Singh 20 Jul 2024, 10:00pm
Stewart Lee, review: even basic Lee is basically still better than most 4/5 Tristram Fane Saunders 19 Jul 2024, 9:41am
Daniel Kitson: Collaborator – sharp, subversive and oddly feelgood 4/5 Claire Allfree 17 Jul 2024, 12:45pm
Ooh, Betty! The return of Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em proves that some jokes never get old 4/5 Dominic Cavendish 14 Jul 2024, 1:34pm
Paul Whitehouse’s Sketch Show Years, review: is Benny Hill really a forgotten comedy genius? 3/5 Anita Singh 27 Jun 2024, 10:30pm
David Baddiel delves into his mum’s sex life in a jaw-dropping memoir 5/5 Helen Brown 27 Jun 2024, 1:00pm
Siân Docksey: Pole Yourself Together, review: chaotic but charming sketches from a pole-dancing comedian 3/5 Stephen Armstrong 22 Jun 2024, 2:03pm
Jazz Emu, Soho Theatre: A deliciously silly hour from Britain’s finest young musical comedian 4/5 Tristram Fane Saunders 7 Jun 2024, 1:06pm
My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom, review: turning childhood trauma into laughs is a daring and defiant act 4/5 Jasper Rees 28 May 2024, 10:45pm
The Cancellation of Jim Davidson, review: former Mr Saturday Night gets a surprisingly fair hearing 3/5 Anita Singh 24 May 2024, 11:00pm
Me and the Voice in My Head, review: Joe Tracini finds humour in the darkest of places 4/5 Keith Watson 13 May 2024, 11:00pm
Rhod Gilbert and the Giant Grapefruit: the comedy star mines his cancer diagnosis for big, poignant laughs 4/5 Tristram Fane Saunders 9 May 2024, 2:47pm
Everybody’s in LA, review: John Mulaney tries – and fails – to revive the late-night talk show 2/5 Ed Power 4 May 2024, 1:49pm
Peter Kay, Utilita Arena, Birmingham, review: Kay’s rare common touch shines through - but he needs more gags up his sleeve 3/5 Dominic Cavendish 4 May 2024, 12:24am
Jimmy Carr, Laugh Funny: an up-yours to civility – delivered with AI joke-bot efficiency 3/5 Sharon Lougher 2 May 2024, 3:52pm