Adam Riches
- 51 years old
- British
- Actor and stand-up comedian
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Adam Riches interview
The comedian, writer and Foster's Edinburgh comedy award winner on the things that make him laugh the most.
Harriet Gibsone, The Guardian, 22nd June 2018Adam Riches interview
"Acting didn't satisfy the side of my brain that was interested in challenging myself riskily."
Ian Cater, What's On London, 2nd March 2018Why are comedians so sad? You asked Google
Every day millions of people ask Google life's most difficult questions. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries.
Adam Riches, The Guardian, 21st February 2018Chortle Awards 2018 nominees
The nominees for the Chortle Awards 2018 have been announced. Mat Ewins, Hannah Gadsby, John Kearns and Joseph Morpurgo are up for Best Show.
British Comedy Guide, 7th February 2018Adam Riches: Inane Chicanery
If not every chunk of this show reaches the same dizzyingly ridiculous heights as some of his earlier ones, it's still consistently inventive, bizarre and energetic.
Lydia Manch, Londonist, 26th January 2018Review: Adam Riches' Inane Chicanery
Riches makes for a capricious and occasionally brutal overlord, barrelling through social boundaries, personal space and the tough questions: 'His personality, is that the reason you two aren't a couple?' It's hilarious when it works, which is often -- and if not every chunk of this show reaches the same dizzyingly ridiculous heights as some of his earlier ones.
Lydia Manch, Londonist, 26th January 2018Why I hate (being part of) audience participation
Adam Riches brings his acclaimed Edinburgh show, Inane Chicanery, to the Soho Theatre this week. Riches is famous, among other things, for getting members of his audience up onstage to play an integral part in his sketches feeding him fruit juice or taking part in an impromptu hair-cutting session. It can be seat-of-your-pants stuff in numerous senses. You never know quite how far he will push things and for many, including me, you can never quite unclench your buttocks during his set for fear that you are about to be selected.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd January 2018The Beakington Town Hall Meetings review
The winningly weird comic tasks his audience with solving an animal massacre mystery in an evening that spins a good story from endless fun nonsense.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 6th December 2017The best comedy shows this Christmas
Bridget Christie promises a night of hope and despair, Daniel Kitson serves up a heartwarmer and Lucy McCormick delivers a trash take on the New Testament. Here are the funniest festive gigs
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 2nd December 2017The stand-ups taking slapstick into a care home
The residents were expecting bingo. Instead they got lessons in strawberry spitting, a Railway Children spoof - and a stuntman stripping to his underpants...
Si Hawkins, The Guardian, 21st November 2017