If you were to read the opening paragraph of my personal statement – something which I would not recommend – you would come across something a bit like this: “I have always loved P.G. Wodehouse, and no matter how many times I read his novels, I find an unadulterated joy in his prose”. It’s pretty […]
James Acaster
Review: Bristol Comedy Garden
Cast your minds back to the week following the EU Referendum result. It was a turbulent one, to say the least. Crashes and resignations, speeches and revelations: everything that could have happened seemed to happen. So it’s fair to say that my trip to Bristol Comedy Garden on Tuesday 28 June came as a blessed […]
Drumstick to slapstick: An interview with James Acaster
James Acaster asserts to Mock The Week’s studio audience that he knows “shit loads about bread” and that, to him “the origin of prawn toast still remains a mystery”. Lucky really, that Dara Ó Briain landed Acaster with the topic of ‘food’, he’s something of a culinary comedian – the first thing that appears when […]