Hari Kondabolu: Warn Your Relatives
I mainly watched this to have a chance to see Hari Kondabolu in action after hearing him so many time on The Bugle.
Movie Category: Standup Special
Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog
There’s something bloody compelling about the way Davies tells a story. And despite basically knowing exactly what you’re going to get, it’s impossible to tear yourself away from his roll-call of tales. 👍
Alice Fraser: Savage
Having discovered Alice Fraser through The Bugle podcast I was very excited to see one of her standup shows – this wasn’t at all what I expected, but was excellent. It’s a personal piece centring around her Mum, her upbringing, her relationships, and contextualised against her Mum’s journey through Multiple …
Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room
Katherine Ryan is amazing. Confident, assured, fabulous, sarcastic, empowered, affirming, hilarious, brilliant. She’s a comedy assassin, and I wish there were a hundred of her standup specials on Netflix so I could watch them all – over, and over, and over. The headline piece from this special, I reckon, is …
Jimmy Carr: Funny Business
Netflix, IMHO, has done a great thing by sinking a load of money into developing standup specials – providing increased access to them for all, and removing the need to litter the landscape with single-watch DVD copies that haven’t made it off the shelves of charity shops around the land. …
Amy Schumer: The Leather Special
Schumer taking absolutely no prisoners in her usual way in this standup show, however it’s fair to say that the set wasn’t her “usual” style – instead getting pretty clinical about sex. Kinda felt a bit like Eddie Murphy’s “Raw” and “Delirious” shows, insofar as it’s the sort of thing …
Joan Rivers: Don’t Start with Me
Didn’t make it all the way through this one… Really wanted to like it, and I still maintain I think Joan Rivers is amazing – but this really left my cheese out in the wind. 👎
Katherine Ryan: In Trouble
Katherine Ryan has been on the comedy circuit for probably around 10 years now but I think in the last few has really found her rhythm with her brand of near-deadpan delivery of intellectually justified no-helmet, no-net leaps of comical wrongness. Definitely worth keeping an eye out for her appearances. 👍👍
Bridget Christie: Stand Up For Her
I think Bridget Christie’s wonderful, and ridiculous – and this was the first full show of hers I’d ever seen, outside of the circuit piece she used to do dressed as an ant. Excellent feminist material without – I think – pandering to women only, or too much man-bashing. Intelligent …