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Live Review: Old Comedian of the Year
Strictly speaking this should be called Middle Aged Comedian of the Year. Most of the the acts were young enough to be the offspring of feisty, filthy 82-year-old compere Lynn Ruth Miller.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th July 2016Review: Old Comedian Of The Year 2016
Never mind Old Comedian Of The Year, maybe it's time for a Posh Comedian Of The Year competition, given the number of upper-class characters - real, exaggerated or fictional - on display in this year's competition for the over-35s.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th July 2016English Comedian of the Year 2016 results
Josh Pugh has been crowned English Comedian of the Year 2016. He topped a field of 12 comedians performing at the final at the Udderbelly in London. Andrew Maxwell was the compere.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th July 2016Old comedian of the year 2016 results
Posh "Freelance adventurer" Jasper Cromwell Jones, alias stand-up Joe Bor, is the winner of this year's Old Comedian of the Year competition.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd July 2016Line up for English Comedian of the Year final
The line-up has been announced for this year's English Comedian of the Year Grand Final.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th June 2016Leicester Square Theatre Sketch-Off review
Something of a strange evening down in the Leicester Square Theatre, which has added to its New and Old comedian competitions this test of the up-and-comers on the UK's sketch scene. We know all about Cardinal Burns, The Pin, Massive Dad, Sheeps, Minor Delays et al, but is there strength in depth?
Paul Fleckney, Chortle, 13th April 2016Joe Bor: Leicester Comedy Festival review
I have to admit, at first I didn't really 'get' Joe Bor. I'd spoken to him before and imagined him to be a cheeky chap from London. So when what seemed like a stereotypical former public schoolboy, with a posh accent and even posher laugh - completely different from the man I spoke to on the phone - stepped on stage, I was a little shocked, to say the least. It took me a few minutes to realise it was a character show, based around the story of Jasper Cromwell Jones.
Yasmin Duffin, Leicester Mercury, 21st February 2015Leicester Comedy Festival: meet Joe Bor
Interview with comic Joe Bor.
Yasmin Duffin, Leicester Mercury, 18th February 2015Warm-up comedians Joe Bor and Jo Caulfield now shine
Warm-up acts are the unsung stars of TV comedy shows whom the viewers at home never see, but Bor and Caulfield are taking their own material to this year's Festival.
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 6th August 2014Edinburgh Fringe preview: Joe Bor
Joe Bor is an observational character comedian, actor and writer. He currently does TV warm up for The Graham Norton Show and Mock The Week and has done warm up on a range of shows including Alan Carr: Chatty Man and 8 Out of 10 Cats. A glutton for punishment he's bringing two shows to this year's Fringe.
The Public Reviews, 3rd July 2014