Tim Harding
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Next Big Thing 2025 nominees announced
Celya AB, Dan Tiernan, Josh Pugh, Katie Norris, Michael Odewale, Olga Koch, Paddy Young, Rachel Fairburn, Rob Copland and Tarot have been announced as the inaugural nominees for an award naming comedy's Next Big Thing.
British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2025Tim Harding's top 20 gigs of 2024
Here is the best live comedy shows I saw in 2024, an otherwise best-forgotten era of indignity.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 2nd January 2025Bill Bailey: Thoughtifier review
That blip of winning Strictly aside, not much changes in the world of Bill Bailey, who landed on his formula of stand-up and musical comedy skits long ago and has been steadily harvesting the rewards ever since at sensible intervals.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 30th December 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
I have a soft spot for the kind of productions that appear at this time of year: often loose, slightly boozy festive offerings that only make sense in an end-of-term context.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 20th December 2024A Christmas Carol(ish) review
As a crowd-pleasing, energetic and genuinely festive Christmas offering, it's 50 times better than your average panto - if that's not damning with faint praise.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 29th November 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
With a zingy, approachable tone, a certain Broadway slickness (there's even a 'Who's On First'-style routine added) and an obedient fidelity to the original script, it's unlikely to upset anyone, but part of Dr Strangelove's enduring power is in its originality, and there's none of that here. Plus Janine Harouni, Andy Barr and Bangmouth Village.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 24th November 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
Emma Sidi brought her Fringe show Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray to the Soho Theatre, pushing her character comedy to its limit with a whole show dedicated to a single persona, the titular high-ranking bureaucrat who she plays as a kind of East End wide girl, turning parliamentary intrigues into Towie-coded gossip and drama seshes around the water cooler.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 11th November 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
Since his debut, John Tothill has almost died twice, from malaria and a burst appendix respectively, and suffered infestations of mice and scabies. Also at Soho Theatre, also brilliant, Ania Magliano's new show Forgive Me Father establishes her as an everywoman for our times.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 25th October 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
Tim Harding experiences Alan Resnick and Anna Seregina.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 27th September 2024Tim Harding's comedy diary
If I felt battered and exhausted following the conclusion of the Fringe (and I did), I can only imagine the strength of will it takes for comedians to turn up to their booked gigs at the summer's final festivals.
Tim Harding, Chortle, 13th September 2024