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  Reviewer: Lucia Cox The Public Reviews Rating: Love, Richard Herring purports, is like religion; a delusional, faith-based thing. His aim, this evening is to ‘define and describe love and ultimately destroy it before it destroys (me), again’. This should be easy for the man who has tussled over the testing subjects of Nazism and Religion and come [...]

Reviewer: Guy Walker The Public Reviews Rating: The last time Richard Herring took to the stage he was asking us about the validity of religion with his show ‘Christ on a Bike’. His previous show to that was his defence of the toothbrush moustache and trying to reclaim it for comedy. Herring’s new show is called ‘What Is [...]

Reviewer: Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: As Chris Addison himself relates to the audience, he is slightly famous. Seemingly an understatement, Addison is instantly recognisable from TV shows such as Mock The Week, QI and The Thick Of It. His stand up is not so famous and, if I’m honest, not as memorable as his TV work. [...]

Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Public Reviews Rating: The Public in West Bromwich hosts regular comedy nights in its intimate theatre. This time, it showcased some local talent on the bill. Local boy Lee Gee was the compere. An ex-teacher, Lee hails from Walsall. His trademark is observational comedy, but he didn’t go down that well with the audience [...]

Writer and performer: Simon Munnery Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Simon Munnery starts off his new show in the way he does not intend to go on. A show made up of lengthy monologues and songs opens with a series of short and marvellously surreal one-liners. Munnery enters wearing a stovepipe hat from which bubbles [...]

Writer: Brett Goldstein Reviewer: Cherry See The Public Reviews Rating: I’m not sure some members of the audience at The Square Chapel Theatre were quite ready for the natural wit of funny-man Brett Goldstein. Growing up in a strip club turns out not to be the glam-Stringfellow-esque lifestyle you may at first imagine. Brett opened with an introduction [...]

Reviewer:Maggie Constable The Public Reviews Rating: Jeremy Hardy is one of the UK’s most respected comedians. A vital member of Radio 4′s The News Quiz team and Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, Hardy is back on tour in 2012 as a stand-up where he began. We were treated to a full evening (almost two and a half hours [...]

Writer: by Deborah Frances-White. Reviewer: Julie Burrow The Public Reviews Rating: According to her website, Deborah Frances-White is a stand-up comedian, writer and executive coach, and brings all of these skills together for this show, which tutors men and women on how to become more attractive to the opposite sex. And, though the show’s title suggests something less [...]