Stephanie Merritt
- Journalist and reviewer
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Adrienne Truscott's Asking for It review
Adrienne Truscott fights misogyny with hilarious slapstick, audience engagement - and she's naked from the waist down.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 8th June 2014Miranda Hart: My, What I Call Live Show review
Miranda Hart's party-popping Everywoman intimacy is perfectly at home in the huge O2.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 16th March 2014Tim Key: Single White Slut review - master of bathos
Tim Key at the Soho theatre is somewhere between standup and experimental theatre - and he's painfully funny.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 9th March 2014Miles Jupp is the Chap You're Thinking Of - review
There are one or two sections that feel like filler, but this is a sharp and smartly structured show that should ensure Miles Jupp is the chap everyone will soon be talking of.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 23rd February 2014Rising stars of 2014 - stage
We speak to comedian Aisling Bea about an exciting year ahead.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 5th January 2014Barry Humphries: Eat, Pray, Laugh - review
Les, Sandy and of course Edna are on top form for Barry Humphries's farewell tour as the consummate entertainer shows he has lost none of his brilliance.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 24th November 2013Stewart Lee: Much A-Stew About Nothing - review
The self-pity act requires a fine balance because it can teeter on the edge of depressing. The comedy comes from the air of baffled anger and resignation in the delivery, and the fact that even his oldest fans can never be quite sure how much of it is put on. Fortunately, Lee is a master of the form.
Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian, 10th November 2013Russell Brand: Messiah Complex - review
Russell Brand brings a biblical flood of ideas to his finely balanced stand-up show.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 13th October 2013Michael Che interview
US comedian Michael Che on his gruelling Edinburgh schedule, writing for Saturday Night Live and being thrown out of home by his mother.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 4th August 2013Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup
The absurd, the heartfelt and the personal were all ripe for humour in a week that proved the continued worth of the fringe.
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer, 5th August 2012