Movie Category: Standup Special

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 centring around her Mum, her upbringing, her relationships, and contextualised against her Mum’s journey through Multiple …

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 …

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 …

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 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. 👍👍

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 …