Daniel Kitson
- 47 years old
- English
- Actor and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Tim Harding's comedy diary
Emma Sidi brought her Fringe show Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray to the Soho Theatre, pushing her character comedy to its limit with a whole show dedicated to a single persona, the titular high-ranking bureaucrat who she plays as a kind of East End wide girl, turning parliamentary intrigues into Towie-coded gossip and drama seshes around the water cooler.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 11th November 2024Pith by Daniel Kitson review
It's only been three months since Daniel Kitson unveiled his last show, Collaborator, an innovative premise with more-or-less every member of the audience given their own script.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd October 2024Brand new show from Daniel Kitson
Pith will run at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, from October 17 - 26. It is described as "a new storytelling experiment".
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th September 2024Daniel Kitson: Collaborator review
Kitson has wrung out jokes from every angle of this innovative conceit, and made comedic capital out of his possible pretentiousness, thus avoiding it. He takes swipes at the awfulness of actors, calls stand-up a bankrupt art form full of people telling you too directly what they think and mocks his own legacy and reduces storytelling to its simplest elements.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 18th July 2024Daniel Kitson detests audience participation but still manipulates us like marionettes
The comedian's show Collaborator involves 160 audience members getting speaking parts - and Kitson has anticipated every possible question, anxiety or misstep.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 18th July 2024Daniel Kitson: Collaborator review
The award-winning comedian's new high-concept show revolves around audience participation - but it's a lot more enjoyable than it sounds.
Claire Allfree, The Telegraph, 17th July 2024London run for Daniel Kitson
Daniel Kitson will be doing a London run of his latest show Collaborator. It is billed as a work in progress.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th June 2024Daniel Kitson to compere benefit gig with Katherine Ryan, Lou Sanders, Tom Rosenthal and more
Cult comedy superstar Daniel Kitson is set to compere an all-star benefit in aid of autism charity PDA next month.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th June 2024All-star line-ups mark Just the Tonic's thirtieth birthday
Just The Tonic proudly announces a weekend extravaganza of laughter and celebration in honour of their 30th anniversary.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th May 2024Maybe A Ghost Story by DanieI Kitson review
It's scary how charming and engrossing it all is.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd November 2023