I watched the Olympic Opening Ceremony on a big screen surrounded by fellow Countrymen enjoying the last of the sun, eating carrot batons. Later, and in more apt Olympic style, I switched to Chicken Nuggets. The drinking aspect of the

Reviewing a new Alan Partridge comedy is like supporting England in a penalty shoot out; there is no winning. I could watch this hour, tell you it is brilliant, and get “you would say that” taunts. Equally, it could be

Nicolas Stoller’s The Five Year Engagement opened in the UK this weekend, a feature which sees the English-American film maker combine writing, production and direction alongside household names Judd Apatow and Jason Segal. In additional to the typical problems that

It is not very often that we are afforded the opportunity to review an album on The Comedy Journal. It wouldn’t take much market research for a music exec to decide against any budding musical comedy acts standing hopefully before

After being blown away by recent TV sketch show Cardinal Burns, new Radio 4 show Sketchorama provided me with an additional opportunity to enjoy even more emerging sketch acts across the UK. Presented by fellow sketch show comedian, writer and

Perhaps it’s my desire to become a sitcom writer (without any of the talent or vocabulary to do so) that makes Episodes appeal to me. It certainly isn’t the humour. For all its failings as a comedy I actually quite

Here at TCJ, we grumble about many things, but one concern in particular that rears its ugly head time and again is our growing frustration about the lack of recent, quality sketch shows. It has been 18 years since The

New comedy series You Cannot Be Serious! made its debut on ITV this evening, a sports themed impressions/clip show fittingly broadcast straight after England’s final warm up game before the upcoming Euros. Aiming to be at least slightly more entertaining

Over this side of the pond, Seinfeld – as a show - has a rather cult status attached to it. Comedy geeks country wide will lovingly brandish well worn, extravagantly packaged box-sets (Seinfans who’ve attempted to access the actual DVDs from the labyrinth of

Yesterday evening saw the Birmingham Final of the Tickled Pig Student Comedy Competition, after similar events had taken place in Leeds and Nottingham. Five up and coming stand up talents took to the stage, with only one winner and runner-up

Believe It! is the ‘radiography’ of Richard Wilson, or at least it would it be if he hadn’t made half of it up. It’s quite a wonderful experience listening to woven tales that may or may not be true. It