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2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Comedy highlights
Tim Key, Andrew Doyle, Andrew Maxwell, Dylan Moran and more.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 11th July 2012Altitude comedy festival: Bringing humour to the Alps
Next week, Tim Clark, from comedy news website Such Small Portions, is heading off to one of the most unique comedy festivals in the world. That festival is Altitude - a five-day laughterfest that takes place in the Austrian Alps. Tim explains what Altitude's all about - and talks to its founders, comedians Marcus Brigstocke and Andrew Maxwell.
Andrea Mann, The Huffington Post, 20th March 2012Has Radio 2 missed the style train with its line-up today? Here's a celebrity-based panel show in which comedians and commentators vie to come up with gossipy quips about showbiz personalities.
Somehow all of those ingredients sound a bit past their sell-by date these days. After a decade of chitterchat by so-called entertainers about nonentities, not to mention public enquiries into the dodgy provenance of some of the gossip in the past, it all feels a bit stale. But, who knows?
Maybe Claudia Winkleman, hosting, can raise a little glitter from Andrew Maxwell, Katy Brand and Russell Watson.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 20th January 2012Comedy review selection
Reviews of Benet Brandreth, Seann Walsh, Andrew Maxwell, The Rob Deering Experience and Andrew Lawrence.
Rob Epstein, The Independent, 28th August 2011Edinburgh fringe comedy round-up
From Andrew Maxwell and Sarah Millican to Russell Kane and Meryl O'Rourke, Stephanie Merritt reviews the best of this year's Edinburgh comedy.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 21st August 2011When Andrew met Sammy
ThreeWeeks guest editor Andrew Maxwell talks to Sammy J about working in comedy, the benefits of Edinburgh, and a foul-mouthed purple puppet.
Andrew Maxwell, ThreeWeeks, 19th August 2011When Andrew met Glenn
Guest Editor Andrew Maxwell interviews - well, more gossips with, really - Fringe legend Glenn Wool.
Andrew Maxwell, ThreeWeeks, 19th August 2011Andrew Maxwell's festival diary: Day one
Despite coming to the city for the last 17 years, the Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell is constantly amazed by Edinburgh.
Andrew Maxwell, The Telegraph, 5th August 2011Andrew Maxwell: King in waiting
Though hardly a comedian in the wilderness, Andrew Maxwell perhaps hasn't had the success of some of his less talented contemporaries. But, as he tells Jay Richardson, he's not done yet.
Jay Richardson, Fest Mag, 20th July 2011Coming late into an already saturated market, Sky 1's Wall of Fame is a fitfully-amusing, chronically derivative and ambition-free comedy quiz show based around the previous week's top 32 most talked about celebrities.
David Walliams is in the chair, with Jack Dee and Kate Garraway as competing team captains. It is something of a cakewalk for Walliams and Dee, relaxed to the point of complacent, but since comedy is hardly Garraway's forte she is given Andrew Maxwell as a teammate. Maxwell's material is quite funny, but he really should put a more effort into feigning spontaneity. It all sounds suspiciously scripted to order.
The rest of the panelists usually comprise attractive but vacant young women, purportedly celebrities themselves, whose principal contribution is to make the men appear funnier by comparison.
Wall of Fame isn't bad, but neither is it particularly good either. With originality so low on its list of priorities the show already looks a bit tired, despite being brand new.
The Stage, 7th July 2011