Daniel Kitson

My Comedy Hero: Paul Sinha on Daniel Kitson

Comedian salutes talent and supreme ambition of friend and hero

28 Jun 2011

My comedy hero is Daniel Kitson. I am certainly not breaking new ground with this choice. There is a breed of comedy fan who speaks of Daniel Kitson’s body of work with hushed reverence, and for many years bootleg tapes of his best work have been passed…

It’s Always Right Now, Until It’s Later

Achingly beautiful stories from a normal bloke

19 Aug 2010

Daniel Kitson is a prodigiously talented comedian and storyteller. He’s also a normal guy. He announces himself normally, strolling onto the stage and thanking his audience for coming to such an early show (10am). He says he’s going to tell two stories…

The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

Epistolary tale is an exhilarating experience

10 Aug 2009

Old, forgotten, secret and hidden stuff all push Daniel Kitson’s buttons. It’s one of the reasons why he’s ‘an inveterate emotional hoarder’ and won’t throw away mementoes and decades-old love letters. The comedian and playwright also loves glimpsed…

Five festival over-achievers

6 Aug 2009

Robin Ince One can only assume that Robin Ince sits in a thick blue funk for that small portion of the day when he isn’t A) hosting a ‘lunchtime celebration of science and the wonderful’, B) being a ‘bleeding-heart liberal’ or C) opposing ‘the moral…

5 Questions: Debbie Pearson from the Forest Fringe

6 Aug 2009

5 words to describe the Forest Fringe? Adventurous, supportive, spontaneous, revolutionary, lo-fi. 4 shows you’re looking forward to seeing in Edinburgh this August Littlebulb’s Sporadical and Action Hero’s A Western at Forest, Nic Green’s…

Daniel Kitson - The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

A comic known for his bitter-sweet monologues prepares to die

13 Jul 2009

The Fringe has a template for restless comedians with an urge to do serious drama. Find a popular play, call your stand-up pals and throw the show on with a no-frills budget. This year, Bruce Morton and Phil Nichol are doing just that with a revival of…

Edinburgh Festival 2009 - Fringe programme highlights

11 Jun 2009

Roll up, roll up. It may just seem like yesterday that the Edinburgh Fringe packed its bags for 2008 but now it’s back with a vengeance. Against stiff competition from its international and national counterparts, this year’s Fringe line-up looks…

66a Church Road

21 Aug 2008

Sitting amid an array of suitcases as if he has been thrown out onto the street, Daniel Kitson creates a tragicomic riff on his old flat. At first the imaginative conceit successfully taps into the sentimentality people invest in their homes, but the…

Daniel Kitson

8 May 2008

The bearded wonder returns for two sell-out shows which will showcase The Impotent Fury of the Privileged which did so well at the recent Melbourne Comedy Festival. Daniel Kitson? Furious? Impotent? Privileged? We're not quite sure where to look.

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Stage Whispers

16 Jan 2007

As New Year hangovers begin to lift, the theatre often stirs, slowly, to life in January, shaking off the grip of panto season with the first halting steps of a restarted season proper. Whispers finds no exception this year, with things not yet entirely…