Jay Richardson
- Journalist
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No Such Thing as a Fish review
The QI-spawned quartet have an easy chemistry on the live stage.
Jay Richardson, The List, 22nd March 2018David Baddiel: My Family - Not The Sitcom review
Jaw-dropping disclosures and shocking details abound in top-notch show about infidelity and illness.
Jay Richardson, The List, 19th March 2018Comedy review: Marjolein Robertson
Claiming to be Shetland's only female comedian, with violent reprisals threatened for any pretenders to her crown, Marjolein Robertson is a highly promising and delightfully original act. Perhaps only Michael Redmond or David Kay convey a similar, slightly touched impression of otherworldliness in Scottish stand-up.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 17th March 2018Glasgow Comedy Festival review: Micky Bartlett
Despite, by his own admission, not hailing from the more charming side of the border, Northern Irish comic Micky Bartlett is an amiable performer, a boyishly roguish storyteller.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 13th March 2018Interview: Bridget Christie
Bridget Christie on her Glasgow Comedy Festival show about Trump, Brexit and the importance of finding common ground.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 12th March 2018Stuart McPherson on Cybercrime, Spuds & Coke Zero
It says something about Stuart McPherson that when he landed his first acting role, a guest spot as cybercrime officer Archie Pepper on the BBC Scotland cop mockumentary Scot Squad, he just assumed the character would be shit at his job.
Jay Richardson, The Skinny, 9th March 2018Super November review
It's like nothing you've ever seen before. Made on a microbudget of less than £4,000 and shot in two distinct periods, spring and winter, the film abruptly switches midway through from a light-hearted rom-com to a grim, police state thriller.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 4th March 2018Review: Rich Hall's Hoedown, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
As a cultural ambassador for the US, Rich Hall has become the sort of hard-gigging, craggy troubadour he so venerates in Willie Nelson and so disparages in Bob Dylan - the latter an American icon whose diminishing returns from endless touring leaves the comic feeling furiously short-changed. Happily for fans of the world-weary Hall, though, while there's a sizeable chunk of classic material here, especially in hilarious songs such as Rose of Hawick, with his setlist tailored to a Scottish audience, the new material is vital and incredulously angry.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 27th February 2018Review - Bill Bailey: Larks In Transit
A warm embrace of our chaotic world in words and music.
Jay Richardson, The List, 23rd February 2018Mark Thomas on Showtime From the Frontline
"I remember someone saying 'if you hear any gunfire, more than likely it's a celebration of something. But as a rule of thumb, don't go towards it,'" chuckles Mark Thomas, recalling his first visit to the West Bank.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 10th February 2018