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Brett Goldstein Grew Up in a Strip Club – The Square Chapel, Halifax

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 [...]

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How To Get Almost Anyone To Want To Sleep With You -The Lowry, Salford

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 [...]

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Kevin Precious: Not Appropriate – The Lowry, Salford

Reviewer: Clare Boswell The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Whilst watching Kevin Precious perform his show ‘Not Appropriate’ at Salford’s Lowry Theatre, I felt it safe to assume that during his years as head of religious studies at Ilfield Community College, Crawley, he must have been one of those cool teachers that kids aspire to be like – after all, [...]

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Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog – The Lowry, Salford

Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★★ One cannot deny the runaway success that is The Inbetweeners. Three successful series, a box office smashing movie and a possibly dubious US version, it seems everyone wants a piece of this home-grown comedy sensation. One of the best things to come out of the show is Greg Davies, who plays [...]

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Chris Addison The Time is now, Again Tour – Grand Opera House, York

Reviewer: Tony Oliver The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★½ Fresh from The Thick of It, Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You and his sell-out 2010 tour, Chris Addison, the man who put the ‘Chris Addison’ into, ‘I see Chris Addison is touring again,’ is touring again. He’s written a brand new show, The Time Is Now, Again [...]

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Ed Byrne : Crowd Pleaser – The Lowry, Salford

Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Crowd Pleaser – that’s one heck of a bold title, crying out for reviewers to prove Ed Byrne wrong, giving him one star ratings and any multitude of sarcastic comments. But the name shows confidence, a performer who knows his audience and knows what they will enjoy. In the hands of [...]

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Lee Nelson Live – The Lowry, Salford

Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Character comedy has all but eclipsed stand-up in the past few years. Everyday language has become littered with the utterings of a whole host of grotesque characters from Vicky Pollard’s ‘Yeah, but no, but yeah’, to Carol Beer’s “Computer says no”. The catchphrases have found a place in our hearts, even [...]

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Lee Nelson – Grand Opera House, York

Reviewer: Tony Oliver The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Having taken the air waves by storm with his BBC 3 comedy show ‘Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show’ Lee Nelson, supported by his best mate Omelette embarks on a National tour which continues until 6th April 2012. The stage at the Grand Opera House is dimly lit with purple lights, a [...]

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