Five years of LMAOnaise: Why comedy reviewing deserves better
I set up LMAOnaise Comedy as a way to shout about all this fantastic comedy I was ingesting, and to build a community of people who wanted to do the same.
Q&A: Leila Navabi, Relay
Relay is a punk-musical one-woman show about love, family and chaos. It starts with a very unusual question: how do you make a baby with your partner, your best friend as sperm donor, and his boyfriend cheering from the side-lines?
Laura Smyth demands Apollo changes name to ‘Hammer-SMYTH’
Laura Smyth caused a stir this week after turning up outside the iconic Eventim Apollo Hammersmith to demand the venue change its name to the “Eventim Apollo Hammer- SMYTH” arguing that the correction was long overdue.
Women in the spotlight on first Live Comedy Day!
Yesterday we took centre stage in London t o celebrate the first ever Live Comedy Day and spent 12 hours connecting Funny Women, supporting the hilarious Gobby Girls and hosting spectacular events.
Review: Saturday Night Live UK
I joined SNL UK’s first live audience (Saturday 21st March) excited and cautiously optimistic. Excited because SNL since birth has been a benchmark for sketch comedy worldwide.
The reality of gigging with a baby…
At one of my last gigs before I had my daughter, the promoter said ‘don’t worry, when you have the baby you can just bring it to the gig, I’ll hold it in the green room while you’re onstage’.
