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Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 Awards nominees

Daniel Foxx, Darran Griffiths, Joe Kent-Walters, Michael Brunström, Milo Edwards and Thanyia Moore are amongst those nominated in the Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 Awards.

British Comedy Guide, 4th March 2024

Comedy review: Robert Newman at Firebug

What do you mean you've never seen a man on stage in a homemade brain encephalograph? You, my friend, have never lived.

Paul Banks, Leicester Mercury, 16th February 2016

Review: Robert Newman at the Leicester Comedy Festival

I haven't seen a show as unapologetically high-brow and verbose since Ahir Shah burst on to the scene a few years ago.

Paul Banks, Leicester Mercury, 11th February 2016

Review: Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe addresses heavy issues with a lightness of touch that stops her set ever becoming preachy, and her constant self-questioning reassures us that whilst nobody's perfect in an imperfect world, that's no excuse not to try and be a better person.

Paul Banks, Leicester Mercury, 8th February 2016

Funz and Gamez: Leicester Comedy Festival review

If this all sounds wholly inappropriate for a kids' show, that's because it is. But this is the genius of Funz and Gamez - the most inappropriate gags fly over the little ones' heads but keep the adults sniggering like naughty children themselves. In short, this was a wickedly fun hour.

Paul Banks, Leicester Mercury, 23rd February 2015

Bobby Mair: Leicester Comedy Festival review

Don't go and see Bobby Mair if you're easily offended, or if you like happy jokes about light subjects.

Paul Banks, Leicester Mercury, 21st February 2015

BBC commissioner talks comedy treatments

The Knowledge spoke to BBC comedy commissioner Chris Sussman about what kind of shows he's looking for in 2014 and how writers with funny bones can get their idea up on screen...

Paul Banks, The Knowledge, 31st March 2014

A League Of Their Own heads to Australia

Australia's Network Ten has commissioned UK sports gameshow show A League Of Their Own, with comedian Tommy Little fronting the programme.

Paul Banks, KFTV, 5th July 2013

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