Kate Berlant
- American
- Actor and stand-up comedian
Press clippings
Best of 2023: Comedy
Comebacks, emotional journeys and assured debuts.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 30th December 2023My most memorable comedy gigs of 2023
A personal look back from Chortle editor Steve Bennett.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th December 2023The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2023
Julia Masli comes top in the Guardian's favourite live comedies this year, although she insists her show is not a comedy.
Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian, 21st December 2023Review: Kate Berlant's masterful show will have you crying with laughter
The hype around Kate Berlant's show isn't so much palpable, as repeatedly thumping you in the face.
Will Noble, Londonist, 6th September 2023Review: Kate Berlant: Kate
If the Cockney accent Kate Berlant attempts during her one-woman show weren't so charmingly terrible - even she corpses during the Dick Van Dyke-worthy display - you might assume she was British, purely due to how good she is at taking the piss; out of herself, out of her peers and out of the sacred 'industry'. Even the good-natured crowd comes in for a brutal drubbing, whooping with masochistic delight when she mocks them.
Leonie Cooper, Time Out, 6th September 2023Arrest that joke! A history of gags so offensive that punters called the cops
Stand-up Joe Lycett has revealed that he was reported to police for one of his routines. From Sacha Baron Cohen to Jo Brand, Brian Logan looks at what happens when laughter and the law collide.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 28th June 2022The best blissfully silly comedy for lockdown
Looking for some escapist laughs? Here are a few tips, from John-Luke Roberts' chaotic sketches to Flight of the Conchords' smile-guaranteed songs.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 15th June 2020Top 10 comedy shows of 2019
A double dose of Stewart Lee, Hannah Gadsby's follow-up to Nanette and London Hughes' uproarious blue humour tickled the comedy circuit this year
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 16th December 2019Review - Kate Berlant at the Soho Theatre
Not like anything you've seen before. In a very, very good way.
Paul Fleckney, London Is Funny, 10th October 2019Kate Berlant interview
'There's a connection between being psychic and improv'.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 2nd October 2019