Movie Category: Standup Special

So weird. Watching this was an attempt to find out more about Bo Burnham’s comedy, but aside from some decent silliness all I’m left thinking is that “it’s all about him”.  But, in a...

Haven’t seen any of Bilbo’s solo work in YEARS, it turns out – Tinselworm could’ve been the last one I went to? – and it was a delight to see him on form and...

Merchant’s a genius, and uses his stature, profile, and appearance to pinball his status around like a trapeze artist.  The material here was pretty solid, but I think I could’ve done without the contrivance...

I mainly watched this to have a chance to see Hari Kondabolu in action after hearing him so many time on The Bugle.

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.  👍

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...

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...