Dominic Cavendish
- Reviewer
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Ben Elton's back - but is comedy a young man's game?
Is stand-up mainly for younger performers?
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 9th December 2018The League of Gentlemen Live Again! review
Royston Vasey is starting to feel like a cul-de-sac.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 25th August 2018Jim Tavaré on returning to comedy
'I almost died three times'
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 1st August 2018Comedy's attitude to disability has a long way to go
There's a difference between impressing the judges (and being looked on kindly by the audience in the studio and at home) and having those watching you light up in collective mirth.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 4th June 2018Michael McIntyre, Big World Tour, review
Michael McIntyre's latest show is like an emergency air-drop of medicinal laughing-gas.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 23rd March 2018Ricky Gervais: Humanity, review
His most cohesive and heart-on-sleeve show yet - it's good to have him back.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 15th March 2018Ken Dodd was much more than a 'simple' comedian
It is a cold night in December 2015. Hour after hour, until my jaw aches, until my back seizes up, I have been watching one of the wonders of the comic world regaling his devotees with material I have barely been able to scribble down fast enough.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 12th March 2018Sean Hughes would hate this tribute
Sean Hughes will, I think, forever be associated in the mortal minds of those who knew him in his prime as the archetypal loveable Irish scamp.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 16th October 2017Labour of Love: valid and valiant response
It possibly ranks as one of Tamsin Greig's finest hours, even if this isn't James Graham's - the script contains a handful of the most laboured gags you'll hear outside the perimeters of the party conferences, the sitcom-ish second scene urgently needs fixing and poor Rachael Stirling as Lyons's unsupportive wife is saddled with the sort of horsey, stuck-up stereotype even Class War would find lacking in nuance. Not a landmark theatrical victory, at the final count, but valid and valiant all the same.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 4th October 2017Best theatre at the Fringe 2017
Here's our pick of this year's theatre line-up.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 29th July 2017