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Dominic Cavendish

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The Comedy About a Bank Robbery: best West End show

If it doesn't run for yonks, call me The Critic That Goes Wrong.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 22nd April 2016

Olivier Awards: Is the great West End comedy dead?

I can't see anyone getting that fussed about the [Best New Comedy] winner this year. It's not that Nell Gwynn, A Christmas Carol, Hand to God or Peter Pan Goes Wrong weren't all, in their own ways, admirable, but will any go on to be regarded as a classic?

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 3rd April 2016

Is there a comic fit to inherit Eddie Izzard's crown?

Dominic Cavendish struggles to see where our next great surrealist stand-up will come from.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 22nd January 2016

How Shakespeare invented sketch comedy

As the RSC puts on a new Midsummer Night's Dream, Dominic Cavendish salutes a defining moment in British comedy.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 18th January 2016

Bill Bailey: Limboland, Vaudeville Theatre, review

'The brainiest comedian of his generation'

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 11th December 2015

Frankie Boyle, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, review

What are we? Only a handful of shell-shocked hours from the Paris attacks. That's soon enough, apparently, for Frankie Boyle to make light-hearted reference to the deadliest acts of terrorism France has seen in decades. "UKIP must have felt conflicted..." he observes, as the audience at the Warwick Arts Centre shift uncomfortably in their seats. "'We hate Muslims but on the other hand, they're killing French people.'" It gets a laugh.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 16th November 2015

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse: Legends, review

'A welcome silliness in an age of sour disdain'.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 24th October 2015

Bill Bailey interview

'I wish social media had never happened'.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 29th September 2015

Reviewer review: Dominic Cavendish (The Telegraph)

Dominic Cavendish is perhaps best known, among comedians anyway, as the man who walked out of a Stewart Lee gig. Appalled by Lee's apparent contempt for his audience, Cavendish asked why "the capacity crowd didn't mutiny at this sardonic onslaught". The reason, in the heads of most comedygoers, was that they understood the context of the contempt. To which Cavendish replied that he understood that his fans understood, but it was getting a bit tired. And anyone who has seen Stewart Lee's website will know that the appalled outbursts of reviewers are simply collected and put on display like little trophies. It's hard to win an argument with someone hellbent on self-deconstruction.

Mister Kipper, FringePig, 26th August 2015

Any idiot can do what Michael McIntyre does right? No!

When it comes to the haters, there seems to be little reasoning with them.

Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 7th August 2015

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