Dominic Maxwell
- Journalist
Press clippings Page 17
Sandi Toksvig interview
Sandi Toksvig left The Great British Bake Off to pursue other projects, then lockdown put them on hold. Her response has been to start a daily YouTube show broadcast from her home.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 6th April 2020Alexei Sayle review - serrated yet genial comeback
Who is this old Liverpudlian gent with the white goatee, one moment raging with four-letter finesse against Tories and the mainstream media, the next doing milder material about cruise holidays and daytime television?
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 11th March 2020Simon Evans review
Genially acidic stand-up show with a dynamite twist.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 18th February 2020David Baddiel review
Inventive comic has last laugh on the trolls.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 11th February 2020Jack Tucker review: anti-comedy feels overfamiliar
Jack Tucker, we can all agree, is a terrible comedian. He comes on full of desperate energy, with wacky sound effects punctuating his every punchline. He spends the next hour spilling his drinks, falling over, eyeing up the ladies, overselling humdrum routines about aeroplane food, loudly celebrating when one gag calls back to an earlier one. With his comically chewy New York accent, he calls a bird a "boid". With his lisp, he makes "sitting down" sound like "shitting down". He's a disaster. A propulsive disaster, occasionally an endearing disaster, but still, deliberately, a disaster.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 23rd January 2020The right-wing comic standing up for the working class
Geoff Norcott is not Britain's only right-wing, working-class comedian, but it sometimes feels like it. Indeed, so rare is it to hear a comedian suggesting that Leave voters aren't necessarily racist or that increased government spending isn't necessarily the way to tackle social problems that his appearances on The Mash Report, Live At The Apollo or, for that matter, Question Time have often led to criticism or abuse online.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 21st January 2020Frank Skinner review
It's rare to see such fast-thinking wit deployed with such a sense of joy.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 16th January 2020Sophie Duker: Venus review
Edging towards what kind of comedian she wants to be.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 14th January 2020Stewart Lee review
Comedic tornado blows hot and cold.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 8th November 2019Count Arthur Strong review
The formula is looking frayed.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 4th November 2019