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Rhys James. Credit: Matt Crockett
Rhys James

Rhys James

  • 33 years old
  • English
  • Stand-up comedian and writer

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Amazon and Soho Theatre team up for 20 new stand-up specials

Soho Theatre has inked a deal with Amazon Prime Video which will see the venue's eleven existing on demand specials made available on their platform, plus twenty new shows for 2021.

British Comedy Guide, 19th November 2020

Review - Comedians: Home Alone

I suppose a new generation of TV editors thinks this is how telly must work. They never watched it when they were growing up, of course, because they were glued to their phones.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 2nd June 2020

Review - Comedians: Home Alone

This must have been one of the easiest comedy compilation shows to curate. With the live circuit in its induced coma, so many stand-ups are pumping out online content online that the whole internet is one giant audition room.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st June 2020

Comedians: Home Alone, review

Brilliant, miniature satires on the way we live now.

Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 1st June 2020

TV preview - Comedians: Home Alone

Following E4's Remote Comedy From The Paddock the BBC launches with their own self-shot lockdown rapidfire sketch show. And on the basis of the first episodes - not that this is a competition - the BBC has the edge.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2020

Review - Rhys James

Talk about comic timing. On Friday, Rhys James was cracking coronavirus gags to a sold-out but half-empty Leicester Square Theatre. A couple of days later, the theatre closed indefinitely, owing to... Christ, do we even need to say it?

Will Noble, Londonist, 19th March 2020

New comedy podcasts from Radio X launched

Radio X has launched six brand new comedy podcasts including shows from Matt Morgan, Heidi Regan, Tom Houghton, Maisie Adam & Tom Lucy and more...

Radio X, 13th January 2020

Greenwich Comedy Festival 2019 opening night

The Greenwich Comedy Festival is always a late-summer treat: a chance to catch top names on a line-up bill, often after they've done boot camp of Edinburgh and before their autumn tours.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th September 2019

50 best jokes from Edinburgh Fringe 2019's shows

As the festival enters its final days, we round up the funniest gags on offer this year.

Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 22nd August 2019

The best quick-fire jokes

GQ, 7th August 2019

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