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- Lee Bemrose
More mainstream than edgy, Velvet is nevertheless a fun night out that will leave its audience feeling happy.
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- Jan Chandler
Take three clowns, who double as musicians, add three great voices, idiosyncratic lyrics, a guitar, and now and then a trumpet, and you have the inimitable, unforgettable Tripod.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Sara Pascoe's inclined to lecture, if you listen to her version of herself. ‘I’m a fun lady!’ She means it sarcastically but she is a fun lady.
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- Simon Piening
He occasionally works himself into a lather of faux outrage, spiralling into ever more preposterous levels of paranoiac detail, and yet frequently emerges with pearls of common sense wisdom.
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- Jan Chandler
From the moment he walked onto the stage at the Comedy Theatre the jokes and the laughter came thick and fast with barely a moment to spare for a gulp of water (on Wil's part) or a chance to catch your breath (on the part of the audience.
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- Liza Dezfouli
There’s wit in Trotsky and Friends but no real point to the goings-on so it comes across as being clever for the sake of it.
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- Liza Dezfouli
If you’ve reached an age where it seems like you’re the only person you know who hasn't settled down, the only one left without money in the bank, a house, a partner/kids or a proper career, and if you’re still wondering what you want to be when you grow up, then Arcade’s the woman for you.
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