Daniel Kitson
- 47 years old
- English
- Actor and stand-up comedian
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News: Further Daniel Kitson finds
When I wrote my story about uncovering some early Daniel Kitson footage recently I was contacted by Karel Beer, who has been putting on comedy nights in Paris at his Laughing Matters club for nearly twenty years. "We have hours of Daniel on video performing here in Paris," he told me. And so yesterday I headed over to Paris and met up with Karel in a bar just off the Bastille before retiring to his flat to enjoy some prime cuts of Kitson.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th April 2014Rare Daniel Kitson footage unearthed
A few weeks ago, however, I was tipped off about a TV documentary that featured Kitson when he was pretty much totally unknown. It was a late night Channel 4 series called The Other Side and in 1999 it produced an episode called Edinburgh Madness which went to the Edinburgh Festival in search of "the fringe of the Fringe". The one hour programme featured a number of performers who have either never made it big or knocked the comedy game on the head. Except, that is, for 22-year-old Daniel Kitson, who has done pretty well, despite being described in the blurb as "the Bernard Manning of the millennium".
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th April 2014Tim Key, Arcola Tent - comedy review
Like the recent work of Daniel Kitson, whom Tim Key collaborated with last autumn, this bold in-the-round show takes storytelling into unexpected places.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 12th March 2014Daniel Kitson - Brilliant As Ever, But...
Seasoned Kitson aficionados will know that he can be better than this.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 10th March 2014Daniel Kitson: a man, a monologue and a machine
Analog.Ue at the National Theatre is the latest in a line of one-man shows with an added gizmo - a tradition that takes in Samuel Beckett and Ken Campbell.
Lindesay Irvine, The Guardian, 10th March 2014Daniel Kitson, Analog.Ue - review
Daniel Kitson's latest National Theatre show is a technical feat-cum-therapy session, with little in it for the audience.
Paul Fleckney, London Is Funny, 6th March 2014Daniel Kitson: standup's restless, theatrical polymath
Did you hear the one about the comedian who was as good at avant-garde theatre as he was at cracking gags?
Paul Fleckney, The Guardian, 4th March 2014Daniel Kitson: Analog.Ue, National Theatre, review
Daniel Kitson uses old-fashioned recording technology to piece together a reflective, witty and wondrous performance all about making connections.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 28th February 2014Daniel Kitson - a legend in his own lifetime?
When I wrote about Bill Hicks last week, in advance of the 20th anniversary of his death, I indicated that he was probably the best comedian I had ever seen and that I wasn't sure if I would witness anyone better. Before I wrote that I did have to weigh up the experience of seeing Daniel Kitson.
Julian Hall, The Stage, 28th February 2014Daniel Kitson - a legend in his own lifetime?
He's managed his own fame and cultivated his audience with carefully-chosen venues, avoidance of TV and cross-fertilisation into theatre with his storytelling. But why exactly do his faithful followers keep coming back for more?
Julian Hall, The Stage, 28th February 2014