Latitude Festival comedy review: Jason Byrne
Jason Byrne bulleted through a visual gag-heavy forty five minute set, that featured a solid fifteen minutes with five amazingly precocious children, to an audience that no longer seemed to care how hot or dusty they were, as long as they were laughing: which they very much were.
Latitude Festival comedy review: Stuart Bowden, Before Us
Stuart Bowden’s Before Us in the Cabaret tent was an immensely buoying, interactive story-telling mini-adventure of an angsty, lonely, last-of-his-species creature (clad in a ruched sleeping bag frock and – apparently – not much else).
Latitude Festival comedy review: Sexy American Girl Cousins
It’s an alternately painfully awkward, and bizarre, gauche cocktail of cod-Eastern European accents and stars and stripes: ‘…New York, Australia – we’re sexy in all fifty states, baby!’
Latitude Festival comedy review: Gein’s Family Giftshop, Volume II
Gein’s Family Giftshop open their new hour of sketches at Latitude with a smoking slow-motion set piece involving cigarette flicking and sexual-implicit body flexes.
Latitude Festival comedy review: Liam Williams
The Guardian’s favourite guy – or rather, as he keen to point out, a Guardian comedy reviewer’s favourite guy – Liam Williams set out an hour of pessimism and alternately self-hating and society-hating tirades in the Cabaret tent.
Latitude Festival comedy review: Lazy Susan, Double Act
Celeste Dring and Freya Parker turn out various Australian and up-tempo Matthew McConaughey accents in their bizarre mix of surreal, emotional and playful sketches, bolstered by low-key costume changes and audience asides.
Latitude Festival comedy review: Tim Key
Tim Key is back peddling his shambolic recitals in Latitude’s Poetry tent, ruing the organisers who ‘don’t know where to put him’ and solemnly vowing in passing to make it to the comedy arena at some point.
Latitude Festival comedy review: Pat Cahill
Pat Cahill is a comedian who is almost more performer than comic, so full is his set with more than just straight forward jokes.
