British Comedy Guide

Dominic Cavendish

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Tony Slattery interview

Returning to the Fringe for the first time in 33 years, Tony Slattery reveals to Dominic Cavendish just how lucky he is to be alive.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 19th July 2017

Micky Flanagan, review - worth every penny

The highest-earning comedian of 2016, thanks to the box-office stampede for this, his third arena tour, Micky Flanagan is, to borrow his own words, absolutely loaded. An' Another Fing begins with the cockney geezer fessing up to piles of filthy lucre.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 19th May 2017

The Philanthropist review

Simon Bird and Lily Cole are a treat in this pungent tragi-comedy.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 20th April 2017

Tamsin Greig decries critic's 'unenlightened vocab'

Actor Tamsin Greig has accused Telegraph theatre critic Dominic Cavendish of using "unenlightened vocabulary" after he claimed her gender-swapped casting in Twelfth Night was contributing to "the death of the great male lead".

Giverny Masso, The Stage, 27th March 2017

Ricky Gervais: Humanity, review

It feels as though British stand-up has gone a bit quiet in the past few years, at least compared to its morale-boosting boom period during the post-Credit Crunch bust. Is that partly due to the absence of Ricky Gervais?

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 22nd February 2017

Jack Whitehall review

I was in Waitrose the other day..." How's that for the opening gambit of a comedy show? Jack Whitehall has fashioned a remarkable and lucrative career as a stand-up by saying the unsayable. Not about sex, but shopping.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 6th January 2017

Once in a Lifetime review

Harry Enfield makes the grade in his stage debut.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 7th December 2016

Could it really be that Russell Brand has mellowed?

The piece-de-resistance of the night - at least one of the most printable confessions - concerned a woman in the front-row, who admitted to sending smart-phone recordings of her latest wind-emissions to a friend. It provides a faintly gobsmacked Brand with the golden opportunity to affirm his thesis that we humans are too complicated and oddball for the usual social and political norms to make any sense.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 8th November 2016

Dead Funny is a perfectly crafted

Assisted by sundry skeletons tumbling out of closets, this deft anatomy of marriage and mirth climaxes in a melee of uproarious slapstick (no dramatist worth his salt introduces a large bowl of trifle without putting it to good use). Recommended, then, even if couples should approach with caution: there will be moments when titter ye will not; and there may even be tears before taxi-time.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 3rd November 2016

How Brexit gave comedy the shot in the arm it needed

"I woke up on June 24, and thought 'Cor blimey, I didn't see that one coming!' " exclaims Henning Wehn, self-styled "German Comedy Ambassador in London", near the start of his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Westphalia is Not an Option.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 15th August 2016

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