The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lou Wall is an Australian comedian whose two most recent shows were both nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Wall has appeared on Australian TV panel shows, and also appeared in the ABC Australia and Netflix series, Fisk. I’ve seen and reviewed all three shows …
Chanel Ali is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actress based in New York City. You may have seen her on MTV’s Girl Code, TruTV’s Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks, Starz’s Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, or two showcases she did for Comedy Central in partnership with Refinery29. She also released a …
A San Fransisco native who’s based in both New York City and Los Angeles, Dylan Adler is a musical comedian who performed and wrote for The Late Late Show with James Corden. Before that gig, Adler was named a Comic to Watch by the New York Comedy Festival and a …
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Thank goodness some straight white men of a certain age haven’t become reactionary idiots. That’s as true in comedy as it is everywhere else, it seems. And Pierre Novellie stands tall, or rather, big and tall, in the UK comedy scene for staying outrageously funny even as he gets …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Uh oh! Don’t ask why Daniel Maseda is dressed in a brown cardigan and named Paulette. Best not to ask any questions of this American’s clown show. Better still to sit still and exchange whatever pleasantries Paulette decides to share with you. We’re all just trying to make sense …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awarded Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 On the hunt for the perfect skirt suit, Sam Nicoresti has changed her name but five years on, she’s still waiting to get on the good estrogens and not just the hormones in the drinking water. Nicoresti’s suit search comes with …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Splash Zone could be the front row of a live comedy show (particularly in the Gallagher era), but it’s also a reference to any spot of insecurity that may exist for anyone, audience member or performer alike. What about when Zoe doesn’t feel like telling anyone she’s a …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Norwegian comedian based in the UK, Thor Stenhaug may define himself may his titular status as the product of a one-night stand, raised separately by his parents. But his comedic North Star, and perhaps the feature that shapes his story, is how his love of American sitcoms made …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ You know who else started out joking about pigeons? Hannibal Buress. But Buress was joking about kicking them and selling T-shirts about them. This young bloke has other ideas. A Best Newcomer nominee at this year’s Fringe, Toussaint Douglass introduces himself to us, having grown up in the Lewisham …
⭐⭐⭐ it’s fun to imagine every pitch presentation going like this, but in a studio exec’s cramped office. Erica Bitton gives it her all to show us the day in the life chaos of a Brooklyn waitress with a dreamy side of stardom taking her and us to different eras …
