British Comedy Guide

Dominic Maxwell

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Rob Copland review

The Edinburgh Comedy Awards winner has real star power.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 7th January 2025

Josh Widdicombe: "It took me ages to realise I had a drink problem"

The comedian talks about going sober, having a breakdown, his first stand-up tour in six years - and why he's agreed to appear on the Strictly Christmas special.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 18th December 2024

Adam Riches and John Kearns review - a five-star spoof of Ball and Boe

At the Soho Theatre in London two Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning oddballs form a hilarious new double act pretending to be Michael Ball and Alfie Boe.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 16th December 2024

Jazz Emu announces visual concept album Ego Death

Comedy musician Jazz Emu is releasing a "hubristic" visual concept album, a "self-indulgent" 30-minute music film featuring a host of comic talent, including Harry Enfield, Alex Horne, Al Roberts, Charly Clive, Ellen Robertson, Phil Dunning, Ed Jones and Will Hislop.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2024

Sandi Toksvig and the QI Elves review

This QI onstage experiment is worth repeating.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 14th November 2024

Steve Coogan's West End gamble - can he rival Peter Sellers?

Taking on Captain Mandrake and co in Dr Strangelove was always going to be a risk. There's no doubting the energy. Yet the uneven new lines and old favourites alike play too much in the same heightened register.

Dominic Maxwell, The Sunday Times, 3rd November 2024

Chris McCausland on Strictly

The blind stand-up who is the bookies' favourite to win the show talks about sambas, rehearsal room scandals and losing his sight.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 28th October 2024

Ricky Gervais: Mortality review - Roy 'Chubby' Brown with a philosophy degree?

The provocative comic begins a new tour at the York Barbican with jokes about Jimmy Savile, disabled children, sharia and Gandhi - it's mostly a very tepid hour.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23rd October 2024

John Bishop review

An affable, skin-deep show about fiftysomething life.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 12th September 2024

Ben Elton review - a genius, and a grumpy old git

Performing at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, the trim, still motormouthed 65-year-old's view of the silliness of modern society is panoramic and microscopic.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 10th September 2024

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