Category: Comedy

Leadmill Comedy Festival – Interviews My favourite Sheffield comedy venue, the Leadmill, is holding its first ever comedy festival from Monday 5th to Sunday 11th June, featuring over 53 acts across 41 shows and on three different stages, including a the Blunderbus parked outside. To mark the occasion I am delighted to have interviewed several of […]

The Catherine Tate Show Live – 3 November 2016, Sheffield City Hall I have been a massive fan of Catherine Tate and her sketch show for over a decade with her “Sam and Paul” sketches being my go to comedy from when I want a guaranteed laugh and instant cheer up so when I was […]

Sue Perkins Live! in Spectacles – 6 September 2016, Lyceum Theatre I love the fact that for the second year running I have had the chance to be in a live audience with one of my female role models, tonight with the brilliant Sue Perkins at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, who most people know […]

Talking to Strangers – 16 August 2016, Edinburgh Fringe Festival “Smack the Pony”, the late 90s Channel 4 sketch show is one of my two favourite sketch shows of all time (the other one I will be seeing live later this year) so I couldn’t miss the chance to see one of it’s hilariously brilliant […]

Lucy Porter “Consequences” – 15 August 2016, Edinburgh Fringe Festival Lucy Porter and I both have something in common, which is that we’ve both believed that we’re intolerant to gold even though others claim we can’t be. This, the fact she is hilariously funny, shares the height difference issues me and my boyfriend have but […]

Katherine Ryan “Work in Progress” – 12 August 2016, Edinburgh Fringe Festival I have a confession to make, when Katherine Ryan first appeared on UK television screens I found her irritating (even once describing her voice as reminding me of nails on a blackboard) but as I have seen more and more of her I […]