Micky Flanagan

Micky Flanagan: An' Another Fing review

How do maintain your image as man-of-the-people comedian when you're positively minted? Micky Flanagan decides the direct approach is best: 'I'm just gonna talk abaht it'.

Micky Flanagan, review - worth every penny

The highest-earning comedian of 2016, thanks to the box-office stampede for this, his third arena tour, Micky Flanagan is, to borrow his own words, absolutely loaded. An' Another Fing begins with the cockney geezer fessing up to piles of filthy lucre.

During a hiatus from the biz, the cockney comic began looking at, in his words, "the big issues", and a new, sub-Karl Pilkington venture was born. In this first episode, Micky grapples with what gender means today through a series of tenuously linked encounters with, among others, the owner of a men-only barber's, a female wrestler and a transgender woman. The result prioritises weirdness over insight - and proper laughs.

Micky Flanagan interview

Micky Flanagan shares insights into his one-track mind on sex and willies ahead of his new show Thinking Aloud.

Was this year's Red Nose Day Show a disaster?

What was interesting here was the disconnect between Edinburgh Fringe favourites and a mainstream BBC audience. What the former crowd adores the latter abhores.

Micky Flanagan review

It's clear to see that the 54 year old comedian is back at his best and able as ever to put audiences in continual fits of laughter during his 90 minute show.

Ten big names who began at Shoreditch Comedy Café

The venue is closing because of skyrocketing rents - meaning the comedy stars of tomorrow have one less place to cut their teeth.

How much does knowing the punchline ruin the gag?

The true test of a skilled comedian is the way that they can get just as big a laugh when the audience knows what is coming next as when they don't.