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Dane Baptiste

Dane Baptiste

  • English
  • Actor, writer, producer and stand-up comedian

Press clippings Page 5

Help Save Live Comedy review

For public health reasons, the country might not yet be ready for normality, but every glimpse that a return pre-pandemic life might be possible remains a fillip for the soul.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 17th August 2020

Save Live Comedy review

It was brilliant to see entertainers in the flesh again.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 17th August 2020

Save Live Comedy at the Grand review

Magical and emotional night as live comedy returns.

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 17th August 2020

Monkey Kingdom apologises to Baptiste and Blackwood

Monkey Kingdom has apologised profusely after mistaking comedian Dane Baptiste for actor Richard Blackwood during an exchange with the former.

Deadline, 14th July 2020

Car Park Comedy, Henley review

A review of Dane Baptiste, Hal Cruttenden, Suzi Ruffell and Christian Reilly.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 13th July 2020

Edinburgh Unlocked audiobook to be released

Edinburgh Unlocked, an audiobook featuring Edinburgh Fringe performers, is to be released this August to help raise money for the festival.

British Comedy Guide, 13th July 2020

Company mixes up Dane Baptiste with Richard Blackwood

Actor/comedian Dane Baptiste has been sent a picture of himself for him to approve for a press announcement. Except that he was sent a picture not of himself but of actor/comedian Richard Blackwood.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th July 2020

Dane Baptiste: Just erasing blackface is not enough

Just erasing blackface from old TV shows is not enough - the biggest issue is the lack of black faces. If the industry is truly to change, it needs ethnic minorities in senior consultative positions, writes comedian Dane Baptiste.

Dane Baptiste, i Newspaper, 10th July 2020

UK comedians on the dangers of deleting TV history

As the industry scrambles to remove examples of blackface and racial slurs, Toby Earle speaks to the country's top comics to see if that's such a good idea after all.

Toby Earle, NME, 25th June 2020

Comedy at the Covid Arms review

Consummate host Kiri Pritchard-McLean sets the stage for Frankie Boyle and others in a show with true comedy-club feel.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 7th June 2020

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