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Joanna Neary: Youth Club

Joanna Neary: Youth Club

A period piece with confusing threads

(2 stars)14 Aug 2011

Have we finally wrung out the vestiges of 80s nostalgia? Joanna Neary’s latest show, Youth Club, suggests that this may be the case. Neary is a likeable comic actress, a former Perrier Best Newcomer nominee, and a familiar TV face to viewers of Armando…

Comedy highlights from the Edinburgh Fringe 2011

Comedy picks for the Edinburgh Fringe 2011

20 Jul 2011

David O’Doherty Two shows this year from the beloved man of lo-fi musical comedy with the high-laugh quotient. His usual brilliant sit-down/stand-up fare, David O’Doherty is Looking Up, is augmented by his debut on the one-man comic play scene. Rory…

Edinburgh Fringe Festival comedy shows to look out for in 2011

Edinburgh Fringe Festival comedy shows to look out for in 2011

Margaret Cho, Todd Barry and Imran Yusuf among 2011 ones to watch

9 Jun 2011

Down List way, we’ve just about recovered from the devastating news that there will be no sign this year of Bo Burnham, Jonny Sweet, Tommy Tiernan or Pappys. But if you think that kind of comedic void can be filled by this year’s galaxy of acts, then…

Joanna Neary

Glasgow Comedy Festival - Joanna Neary

5 Mar 2009

When character comic Joanna Neary worked as a nanny in a previous life, she didn’t let the job stop her imagination running wild. One boy she took to school would be entertained by stories of how he lived in a house where the food would come out of the…

Joanna Neary

Joanna Neary

Character comedy of the highest order

(4 stars)14 Aug 2008

Joanna Neary starts her show off in edgy fashion. She's an absolute bag of nerves and there's a real danger that this ropey opening might be translating itself to her audience. But fear not, it's just one of the many beautifully crafted characters that…

Sarah Kendall

Sarah Kendall

(2 stars)16 Aug 2007

Back in the heady days of 2004, Sarah Kendall became the first woman to receive a Perrier nomination in nine years, and deservedly so. Having taken time out to trot the globe, she returned last year with a show that was worryingly patchy and left some…

Joanna Neary

Joanna Neary

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

A consummate mistress of the quick change, over-stretched smile and rolling eyeballs, Joanna Neary cascades from one monologue to another with a very British kind of grace. Full of quirky imagination and charming clowning, she brings to life such varied…

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