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The Liverpool Comedy Festival finally returned after a long absence of 18 months, and offered an impressive range of gigs, from the bread and butter of the circuit to John Bishop's arena run. MADEUP didn't get to see as much of proceedings as usua...
The last time MADEUP spoke to Jake Mills, before the last Liverpool Comedy Festival, he was just about to graduate from Liverpool Hope Uni and was starting to ponder a full time comedy career. Flash forward 18 months and it's still as much of a th...
This autumn Liverpool Comedy Festival is finally back, it being some 15 months or so since the last event. And organisers are saying it has the biggest ever line up to boot. Some 95 shows will take place across seven days between September 27 and ...
Last week I met up for a chat with the lovely Che Burnley to take part in the latest episode of his Comedy Quota podcast, which was rounding up all the happenings of the Liverpool Comedy Festival. Che puts together a solid 20-minute show for Radio...
Straight up, what I know about performance art can fit on the back of a stamp. That Yoko Ono's nice. That's about it. Obviously, this mightn't produce the most enlightened review there ever was. Or, I could trust my judgement and say I'd just been...
Rock 'N' Dole is Sam Avery's second hour-long show, and it was nice to see him make the most of the opportunity to tell a decent tale. He had a cracking subject matter, taking the audience back to his adolescence and his time in a fledgling metal ...
Steve Gribbin is nothing if not good value - the expat Liverpudlian musical comic regularly travels up from his London home to do the rounds and see the family, and makes plenty of opportunities for himself while he???s here. This weekend, as well a...
The Funny Women Awards makes its annual stop off in Liverpool tomorrow night, as one of its regional heats ahead of the final in September. As well as the evening event, it is hosting an afternoon 'women in comedy' debate. The event, held at the B...
Andi Osho is great. A bold female presence on the stand up circuit and the panel show bear pit, the chance to see what she could do live was a real treat and, to use the old reviewers' cliche, she did not disappoint. (Note to self: Don't use that ...
Simon Munnary's show, Self Employed, is a revealing journey into the mind of one of British comedy's unsung talents. Personally, I hadn't seen Munnary live for donkeys' years, and don't really remember much enjoying his Alan Parker, Urban Warrior ...
Tim Fitzhigham is probably chuffed to find himself regularly described as a great British eccentric. Well, someone's going to get round to calling you that if you insist on rowing across the Channel in a bath, which is precisely what the comedian ...
Musical Comedy Award winners Jollyboat have had an exciting few months, and although they've been performing on bills all over the place, tonight's gig was the biggest headliner in Liverpool for some time as it was a taster of the show they plan t...
It's the first night of the Liverpool Comedy Festival! So to kick things off, Made Up headed over to the Unity to catch up with veteran performer Arthur Smith for a night of... well, comedy was just one part of his amiable, silly, but thoroughly e...
Jake Mills is one of Liverpool's brightest up-and-coming comedy stars. A regular on the stand up circuit as he balances student life with an increasingly busy live schedule, he has managed to impress some of the biggest names on the regional scene...
Congratulations to lovely Liverpool-based duo Jollyboat, who have won the 2011 Musical Comedy Award. Described on their Twitter page as ???brothers, comedians, and most of all, pirates???, they have been performing under the Jollyboat name for a year ...
It might seem a bit early in the year, but the first details of the 10th Liverpool Comedy Festival have been revealed. The fest ??? which used to be held in the summer and this year has been moved forward again ??? is to run from late April to early M...
By chance recent events only served to make last night, the final night of an 135 date tour, just as relevant as it was at the start, and normally it would be fair to say that would give a bit of a shot in the arm to a year-old act - not that Rich...
