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Stand-up stars new and old prepare to have last laugh
Phill Jupitus, David Baddiel and Harry Potter star Jessie Cave among those who will perform at this year's festival
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 5th August 2013Phill Jupitus is back in the picture for the Fringe
The larger-than-life TV comic is all geared up to reveal his recently honed skill at the festival in the capital which gets underway today.
Beverley Lyons, Daily Record, 2nd August 2013Phill Jupitus' north east return
Phill Jupitus is back in the North East on Saturday night.
Andrew Dipper, Giggle Beats, 11th June 2013What a Load of Buzzcocks was a lazy cut-and-paste job, but as lazy cut-and-paste jobs go it was one of the better ones. The show looked back over the past 17 years through the skewed prism of comedy quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, covering changes in pop, fashion and team captain Phill Jupitus' waistline.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks started in 1996, suggesting a chronological approach that would force everybody to wait a whole 11 episodes for the quiz show's most memorable moment, when Ordinary Boys' frontman Preston walked off stroppily, only to be replaced by a member of the studio audience.
Harry Venning, The Stage, 7th June 2013Phill Jupitus - review
When you are comfortably established in comedy's club class, no one expects you to innovate. It is to Phill Jupitus's immense credit, then, that this touring show is genuinely experimental and unlike anything else on the circuit. What it isn't, alas, is successful.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 19th May 2013Mark Thomas heads up Belarus Free Theatre benefit
Mark Thomas is bringing together a host of top names including Omid Djalili, Phill Jupitus, Isy Suttie and Imran Yusuf to the Comedy Store later this month to help raise funds for Belarus Free Theatre.
Tim Clark, Such Small Portions, 8th May 2013The News Quiz (Radio 4, 6.30pm) returns. I know there are people who will leap with joy at this news. Once I would have been among them. No longer. Even though producer Sam Bryant has brought back journalists (tonight Daniel Finkelstein of The Times) to pit wits against comedians Roisin Conaty, Phill Jupitus and Jeremy Hardy, the programme has grown so much coarser with the years that even Sandi Toksvig seems challenged when trying to enliven the murky script.
Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 5th April 2013Five character comedians at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
Anna Morris, Al Murray, Phill Jupitus, John Shuttleworth and Bob Doolally among the GICF highlights.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 19th March 2013Top 20 comedy shows in London - January
Featuring Sean Lock, Adam Riches, Rob Newman, Al Murray, Phill Jupitus, Baconface, Mark Thomas, the Improvathon and more...
London Is Funny, 6th January 2013The Buzzcocks producers atone slightly for BBC2's achingly silly decision to cancel Shooting Stars: Bob Mortimer is your host for the seasonal edition of this still-funny music quiz. You can expect... actually, I've no idea what you can expect from Mortimer, that's why he's such a good pick. Captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding, are joined by drum 'n' bass producer DJ Fresh, Melanie C from the Spice Girls, Him & Her star Russell Tovey and comedian Joey Page.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 22nd December 2012