Pierre Novellie

Nonsense: Redux

REANNE MACKENZIE’s jaw is aching after a top-notch night of comedy from Pierre Novellie.

Perfect Strangers

AMI JONES finds the simple things the funniest in the Footlight’s latest offering.

Non-Smoker

KIERAN CORCORAN out of the funniest funnymen that there are amongst funny people, the one who was supposed to be the funniest of the funniest funnymen was the least funny of the funniest funnymen.

Footlights Smoker

JUAN ZOBER DE FRANCISCO and ALICE CARR think this week’s Footlights Smoker was like a shirt. A very good shirt. Obviously.

Footlights Smoker

BASIL FRANCIS finds both disappointment and delight at this fortnight’s smoker.

Corpus Smoker

JUAN ZOBER DE FRANCISCO and ALICE CARR wonder who will take over Pierre Novellie’s crown when the king steps down at the Corpus Smoker this week.

Footlights Smoker

BASIL FRANCIS is not all that impressed by this week’s sweet-and-sour comedy.

G.G.T.H.

Mistakes and technical problems leave EMMA HATRED still none-the-wiser as to what G.G.T.H. stands for.

Footlights Smoker

ELLIE OGILVIE and a singleton audience lift their hearts with a Footlights Smoker.

Corpus Smoker

KIKI BETTS-DEAN narrowly avoids bag-related cliché after seeing another average Corpus Smoker

Footlights Smoker

Bosh. Bing. Bang. ALEX HUGHES loves this smoker so much she is reduced to onomatopoeia

Corpus Smoker

KIKI BETTS-DEAN desperately searches for synonyms of “average”

The Theatre Guide Dog Awards Michaelmas 2011

THE THEATRE GUIDE DOG decides it’s time for giving some awards to some plays.

Nonsense

Pierre Novellie does comedy so good that KIERAN CORCORAN has to resort to contrived references to Japanese gameshows to express it fully. KAWAAAI.

5 Minutes With Pierre Novellie

Grandaddy TOBY PARKER-REES makes a grand return in order to cross blades with renowned comedian Pierre Novellie about his new show Nonsense. It’s mostly nonsense.

Theatre Guide Dog: Week 8

WEEK EIGHT THEATRE IS UNDER OCCUPATION. A People’s Bark will announce the week’s scheduled performances.

Theatre Guide Dog: Week 6

THE THEATRE GUIDE DOG prophesies theatre to come. And is having suspicious food cravings. WHAT COULD THIS MEAN?

Broody

ZULFIQAR ALI finds the ADC lateshow unafraid to make a break from convention, even if the convention is sometimes ‘being funny’.

Hawks’ and Ospreys’ Charity Ball

ROSIE ROBSON and RUPERT MERCER leave the Hawks’ and Ospreys’ Charity Ball unimpressed.

Footlights Smoker

MAX UPTON pays tribute to the Footlights graduands, standing up for the possibility of a 5-star smoker.