Dominic Cavendish
- Reviewer
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Eddie Izzard: "Call me she or he"
Every day this month, the unstoppable comedian is running a marathon - then doing stand-up. His goal? To 'make humanity great again'.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 1st January 2021Meet Dominic Frisby, Nigel Farage's favourite comic
'The BBC has a diversity of everything except opinion'.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 2nd December 2020Kieran Hodgson on his viral The Crown spoof
Kieran Hodgson's brilliant parody of the Netflix drama has had more than three million views.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 27th November 2020Jimmy Carr: A timeless blast of toxicity
Carr's resistance to political correctness has never been more robust, though he also allows himself a surprising moment of jauntiness.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 29th September 2020The 70s would have been unbearable without The Goodies
In a decade of power-cuts, industrial unrest and societal gloom, The Goodies were a seldom-dimming beacon of welcome frivolity. And gleaming and grinning most brightly at the heart of that daft trio was Tim Brooke-Taylor, who has died aged 79.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 12th April 2020Dominic Frisby, Museum of Comedy, review
Pro-Brexit stand-up gets my vote.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 2nd November 2019Ben Elton Live: unexpected pining for Margaret Thatcher
No longer wearing the spivvy suits of yore but casual dark jeans and stripy top (and glasses, as per usual), he declares his theme early on at his first UK stop-off. "I don't understand anymore," he wails. "My confusion isn't just increasing going forward, it's increasing retrospectively. I do not even get what I got."
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 1st October 2019Fleabag review
Hotter than Potter - the Waller-Bridge stage play that became a televisual masterpiece.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 28th August 2019Nish Kumar: review
A potential first-class act, if only he'd drop the Remoany-ness.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 26th January 2019Where are the great comedy double acts of today?
This weekend, audiences around the country will have been taken into a bygone era by Stan & Ollie, a film guaranteed to ensure we fall in love all over again with Laurel and Hardy, courtesy of Steve Coogan and John C Reilly's remarkable, eerily exact impersonations.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 13th January 2019