Veronica Lee
- Journalist
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Best of 2020: Comedy
Outdoor venues and podcasts to the rescue.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 30th December 2020Comedy podcasts round-up 1: from home and abroad
Podcasts have got many of us through 2020, starved as we have been for most of it of live comedy to leave the house to see. Here's a selection of some of the best; they are available on all podcast platforms unless stated.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 7th December 2020Dear Joan & Jericha review
Glorious wrong advice from spoof agony aunts.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 3rd November 2020A Night In with Joan & Jericha, review
For the uninitiated, these two women of uncertain age give appalling relationship advice in jaw-droppingly graphic and un-PC terms.
Veronica Lee, i Newspaper, 28th October 2020Adam Kay, Apollo Theatre review
Former medic tells tales from NHS front line.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 23rd October 2020Live From the Grand Hall, BAC review
Lockdown stories, personal woes and a bit of politics.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 19th October 2020Taskmaster, Channel 4 review
The comedy show makes a seamless transfer.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 16th October 2020Picnic at the Castle review - entertaining mixed bill
Of all the outdoor spaces being utilised to keep live performance going in this maddest of years, Warwick Castle is surely among the most striking. Its Picnic in the Castle series has the building as an imposing backdrop to events, the stage reached by a wooden bridge across the River Avon.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 19th September 2020From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast, review
There are 18 'generously durated' episodes providing nearly seven hours of material. They're a hoot.
Veronica Lee, i Newspaper, 15th September 2020Mixed bill, 21Soho review
Opening of new club is cause for celebration, with performances from Aurie Styla, Olga Koch, Jordan Brookes and Fern Brady.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 31st August 2020