Jamie Does the Stand-Up Europe Festival: After the Fest Is comedy as simple as finding the easiest route to making someone laugh? This is what I began to wonder as I watched comedians from throughout Europe follow formulas to elicit laughter—set up an expectation and deliver a misdirect, add a little pun, throw in a […]
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Jamie Does the Stand-Up Europe Festival: The Flight to Lisbon As I sit on the airplane headed to Lisbon—a city I’ve only been to on layovers with budget airline TAP Portugal—I reckon everything that got me to this point. I’ve been doing comedy on and off since the end of 2015, almost ten years, so
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‘BCN Comedy Vibes: Fringe Edition with Tom Evans’ by Yulia Peelovesky I had the pleasure of chatting with Tom Evans, a comedian whose high energy and wit were the perfect fit as the opening act for Ignacio Lopez’s stand-up show, Señor Self-Destruct, at the 2024 Barcelona Fringe. Tom’s blend of humour, honesty, and relatable charm
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Luke Messina: IMPASTA SYNDROME Review by Alice Russo ★★★★★ The venue is full of people, the door is jammed, and some people are standing at the back. Long-time comedian Luke Messina has just turned 46, and for his birthday, he’s getting a colonoscopy. In IMPASTA SYNDROME, the self-described chubby Jew reckons with a midlife crisis
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‘BCN Comedy Vibes: Fringe Edition with Chris Groves’ by Yulia Peelovesky In this interview, we sit down with Chris Groves, a “comedy dad” who has been nurturing budding comedians for 15 years through his Find Your Funny Stand-Up course. With his wealth of experience on stage and in teaching, Chris shares his candid thoughts on
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‘Incorruptible’ Review by Rachel Relat ★★★★½ Welcome to Priseaux, France, in the dark times of ca. 1250 AD. And if, when I said “Priseaux,” your first reaction was a befuddled, “Where is that?” you’re not alone! In this godforsaken and forgotten monastery, the times are dark indeed. Calamities keep happening and Saint Foy, the local
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Belinda Filippelli: The Heart, Mind, C*nt Connection Review by Iain Anderson I was performing my first show of the Barcelona Fringe on November 4th, just before attending Belinda’s, but knew I wanted to catch her show. I had only ever seen very small snippets of her material at the Comedy Clubhouse and online, but even in
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Alex Jacob and Mihai Sebea: ‘Easterners’ Review by Alice Russo “An East German and a Romanian walk onto a stage …” What happens next is a truly memorable hour of comedy from two of Barcelona’s best ex-communist comrades. Alex Jacob opens with a bang for his first ever split-hour show. Alex grew up in East
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Ewan May: ‘Brian Club’ Review by Ben Pabla ★★★★★ Going by a comedian’s material alone, Ewan May is probably the most well-known comedian in Barcelona. He doesn’t need to have a huge Instagram following, doesn’t need to be out and about at every show, doesn’t need to cosy up to promoters or other big comedians,
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Tamer Kattan: ‘Alien from New York’ Review by Julie Belliveau ★★★★½ After a tricky opener’s set, Tamer Kattan walks on stage and addresses the obvious tension in the room. He takes a few minutes to observe how “punk rock” it is that people are still going to comedy shows despite all the chaos in the
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