Chris McGlade
- English
- Stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Chris McGlade review
McGlade pours his heart and soul into the show but his picture of a golden age of working-class racial harmony is a stretch.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 26th June 2022Chris McGlade: How I forgave my dad's killer - and made it funny
Comedy is often seen as a useful way to tackle thorny topics but Chris McGlade has gone the extra mile with his stand-up show Forgiveness - about his father's murder, in 2011.
Helen Bushby, BBC, 14th June 2022Chris McGlade's class war
The cancelled Recard comic talks to about wokeness, class and forgiving his father's murderer.
Tom Slater, Spiked, 28th May 2022Review: Chris McGlade - Forgiveness
This is the show they tried to ban! Or, to be rather less shrill, Forgiveness is the show the Soho Theatre got cold feet about inviting back because it involves Chris McGlade using a couple of racial slurs. In the end, he negotiates around them - but in a way that we all know what he's REALLY saying - as he makes the argument that it's intent, not the words themselves, that's important.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 12th October 2021Chris McGlade 'cancelled' show now at Comedy Unleashed
'Anti-woke' producers Comedy Unleashed have invited him to perform it at their East London home, the Backyard Comedy Club, owned by controversial comic Lee Hurst.
Chortle, 9th August 2021Soho Theatre cancels Chris McGlade's Forgiveness show
Chris McGlade has complained that he has been cancelled after his show was 'banned' from the Soho Theatre. The Teeside stand-up - who describes himself as an 'anti-PC, pro-free speech, working-class comedian' - had successfully performed Forgiveness at the prestigious London venue last year. But although it won plaudits both there and at the Edinburgh Fringe, plans for a return run have been cancelled over fears about the language used.
Chortle, 18th July 2021Was Soho Theatre right to cancel Chris McGlade?
It's an impossible call, writes Steve Bennett.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th July 2021Chris McGlade: My comedy show about my dad's murder
His father's murder is the subject of Chris McGlade's comedy show. And yes, it's funny, he tells Veronica Lee.
Veronica Lee, i Newspaper, 24th February 2020Chris McGlade: finding humour in his dad's murder
Chris McGlade, who has been a stand-up for over 25 years, has made his father's life and death the focus of his new comedy show Forgiveness.
Wil Jones, JOE, 10th February 2020Chris McGlade: interview
Following the murder of his father, hard hitting and critically acclaimed northern comedian Chris McGlade is attempting to lay to rest the ghosts that have haunted him ever since.
Keira Brown, The Fountain, 16th August 2019