British Comedy Guide

ODG

  • English
  • Musical creative

Press clippings Page 5

Kieran Hodgson on his new Fringe show Maestro

Equipped with a violin instead of a bike this year, 2015 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran Hodgson brings classical music to comedy.

John Stansfield, The Skinny, 29th July 2016

Kieran Hodgson Q&A - Edinburgh Fringe 2016

Interview with Kieran Hodgson.

Short Com, 26th July 2016

Kieran Hodgson interview

From Not The Nine O'Clock News to Anchorman, the standup reveals the things he finds the funniest.

Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 27th May 2016

Kieran Hodgson on Lance Armstrong

When a show about cycling is the hit of the Fringe festival you know the sport has found a wider audience. We talk to Lance creator Kieran Hodgson about his own cycling fandom and love in with the Texan.

Sam Larner, Cyclist, 27th November 2015

Kieran Hodgson recalls his first gig

Ahead of the final London run of his flippin' brilliant show Lance, character comic Kieran Hodgson looks back at a sweaty, laugh-free night in Shoreditch, 2009.

Kieran Hodgson, London Is Funny, 24th November 2015

Interview: rarely asked questions - Kieran Hodgson

Kieran Hodgson's 2015 Edinburgh show Lance was staged in the same room as 2014's Foster's Award winner, John Kearns. And for a while it looked as if Hodgson might be picking up the Foster's Award too. In the end he had to make do with only a nomination for his brilliant piece, which explored one man's obsession with cycling in general and Lance Armstrong in particular.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th November 2015

Review - Kieran Hodgson: Lance

Yet while story is all, Kieran Hodgson doesn't neglect jokes, and there are plenty of blind-siders here, while the whole story is given a droll air by a knowing subtext, which occasionally pops to the surface with asides about Hodgson's career decisions.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 4th November 2015

Review: Kieran Hodgson's Tour De France Tour De Force

If all that wasn't enough to award this show five stars, we're pretty sure we heard Tim Key, sitting behind us, roar with laugher on numerous occasions. That's better than any award Edinburgh could give you.

Will Noble, Londonist, 15th October 2015

Kieran Hodgson: my lying, cheating hero Lance Armstrong

When his first solo show flopped, Kieran Hodgson feared he wasn't interesting enough to be a comic. Then the disgraced cyclist gave his career a shot in the arm.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 12th October 2015

I'd love to see Kieran Hodgson grab the glory

The comedian's show Lance would be a worthy winner, if he can triumph over four-time nominee James Acaster and the inventive Joseph Morpurgo.

Brian Logan, The Guardian, 26th August 2015

Share this page