Joe Jacobs
- Actor and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Channel 4 launches Jokes Only A ... Can Tell series
Channel 4 has ordered the online series Jokes Only A ... Can Tell, showcasing Muslim, disabled, Jewish, Nigerian and lesbian acts.
British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2022Jewish comedians boycott social media for 48 hours
A number of writers and comedians are boycotting social media for 48 hours in a drive to get Twitter and Instagram to change their rules around how they deal with anti-Semitism. The move follows music star Wiley's widely-condemned posts.
British Comedy Guide, 27th July 2020Live review: Sketch Off final 2020
It wasn't a great surprise that the Leicester Square Theatre was not quite full for this year's Sketch Off Final. What was more of a surprise was that the line-up for the final was not full of sketch acts.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th March 2020Sketch Off! Final 2020 review
For a sketch comedy competition, there weren't a lot of sketch groups. Instead, the Leicester Square Theatre's Sketch Off! final last night was dominated by solo character acts - either wise to the fact that they won't have to share the usually meagre financial rewards of the genre by going it alone - or taking no chances by not performing within two metres of anyone else.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 16th March 2020Comedy club set up for comics with dogs
A new comedy club is being set up specifically for stand-up fans who want to bring their dogs. Organiser and compere Simon Caine, who will bring his pet Poppy, said he got the idea from performing comedy in outdoor festivals.
Chortle, 30th September 2019Comedy Unleashed to do pop up gigs at party conferences
London's free-thinking comedy club Comedy Unleashed is taking the same comedians with the same stand-up routines to both Labour and Conservative Party conferences this September.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st September 2019What's the best museum you've ever been to?
One of the more erudite of Richard Herring's Emergency Questions.
Chortle, 18th August 2019Edinburgh rules
Many performers set themselves Edinburgh rules, like not drinking for the month. We asked this year's Fringers what theirs are.
British Comedy Guide, 12th August 2019Nightmare audience members
We asked performers going to the Fringe who they would least like to see in the audience of their show...
British Comedy Guide, 10th August 2019