Dominic Maxwell
- Journalist
Press clippings Page 19
Jonathan Pie review
This palpably unreal character takes himself too seriously.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 3rd October 2019Ben Elton review - does anybody edit him?
Is Ben Elton as culturally redundant as a Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go bumper sticker? Aged 60 and touring for the first time in 15 years, with the shiny suits of his heyday as the high priest of Eighties alternative comedy now replaced by Marks & Spencer polo shirts, Elton establishes his sense of his obsolescence from the off.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 1st October 2019Romesh Ranganathan interview
"Having everything taken away from me stopped me from being lazy".
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 9th September 2019Janine Harouni interview
Rows with my Trump-supporting dad and other gags.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 12th August 2019Jonny Pelham interview
"Telling jokes about being sexually abused makes me feel less numb".
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 25th July 2019American comedians to watch in Edinburgh
Dominic Maxwell selects some American comedians to watch at the Fringe.
Dominic Maxwell, The Sunday Times, 27th June 2019Reginald D Hunter, the comedian shaking up Edinburgh
Is Reginald D Hunter losing his edge? In his 20 years in Britain the American comedian has usually found a way to combine rave reviews with rubbing people up the wrong way.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 27th June 2019Review: Jerry Sadowitz at the Leicester Square Theatre
There is greatness to what he does, but its ugliness needs a clearer sense of purpose to enable him to carry on saying the unsayable.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 9th January 2019The best culture of 2018
Our critics pick their favourites of the year and the ones they'd rather forget, from film, theatre, TV, music, dance, opera, art and comedy.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 21st December 2018The Comedy School: teaching children about knife crime
How do you reverse the knife crime crisis? Send in the comedians, says Dominic Maxwell, who talks to the team devising a joke-packed show for school kids.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 13th December 2018