Joanna Neary does Animals and Men. Leicester Comedy Festival, February 2017. Joanna Neary's show is a breath of fresh comedy air buried deep in the festival schedules. With just the one performance of this show, (same slot tomorrow but different material) she is presumably either trying out various things to put together a full show, or simply using and enjoying the experience of performing. Either way this too-short hour gave us a brief but utterly hilarious insight into the

Norman Lovett - Entertaining Moaner Leicester Comedy Festival, February 2017. For many comedy fans Norman Lovett is one of those comedians who has been around for so long they have become part of the establishment, but are so un-mainstream they are seldom talked about. Certainly, to see his act at least once must be on everyone's bucket-list, although perhaps it is a bucket-list governed rather more by his own lifespan than ours. At 70 years of age, Norman saunters on stage a

Josh Howie's Messed Up Leicester Comedy Festival, February 2017 Josh Howie took the stage with the reassuring calm confidence of an experienced comic who knows he has a good show and is going to relax and entertain us for an hour. He didn't disappoint. What followed was over an hour of great-value comedy, solid material that had been tried and trusted, peppered with selected audience-riffing to engage and include everyone. Everyone, that is, who has children, or can share a

George Egg - Anarchist Cook Bromsgrove Artrix - 4th February 2017 What a lovely man George Egg is. Not only that, but he has a lovely idea for a show, which he manages to deliver very nicely indeed. The hour spent at what is essentially an amusing cookery demonstration was most certainly not wasted, as in addition to the pleasing level of gentle laughs on offer one also potentially came away having genuinely learned a new life-skill. Consequently it is very hard to contextual