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Kemah Bob: Love Child review – Miss Fortunate’s follow-up is a superbly playful origin story

With icky and edgy jokes, the comedian offers an authentic inquiry into her childhood in her sophomore show

The Guardian - UK

‘Just so cheeky!’ Kemah Bob on FOC Fest, the celebration for femmes of colour in comedy

The standup is taking their club night to new heights with an all-day extravaganza. They talk about new talent, learning to laugh in hard times and ‘performative activism’

The Guardian - UK

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The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2024

Sarah Snook put Succession behind her, Hofesh Shechter found horror in Albion and Rhod Gilbert was ecstatic to be alive, in our critics’ picks of the best stage shows of the year

The Guardian - UK

Kemah Bob at Soho Theatre review: confident, charismatic, and very very funny

4/5 Miss Fortunate is a clever, deftly structured storytelling piece, brimming over with laughs

Evening Standard

‘Now I only do dick jokes when I want to’: how Texan standup Kemah Bob found freedom in Britain

Their Miss Fortunate show – which takes in bipolar disorder, financial ruin and a shocking scamming in Thailand – will ‘take the charge paddles to the chest’ of a comedy career that began with an eye-gouging

The Guardian - UK

Kemah Bob: Miss Fortunate review – a rollicking Edinburgh fringe debut

The Texan comedian delivers a playful show about a holiday from hell that tackles mental health and wokeness

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Where to catch the best comics before they head up for the festival

Want to get ahead of the curve and see some of the best comedy talent before they head up to the biggest arts festival in the world? Here’s our pick of who’s playing in London over the next month

Evening Standard

Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows

A one-woman 90s romcom, boundary-testing standups and a new Taskmaster contestant make our comedy critic’s list of the fringe’s most promising tickets

The Guardian - UK

Inside London’s LGBTQ+ comedy scene: from its first permanent queer comedy club, to the names to watch out for

With the city’s pop-up scene headed in hugely exciting directions, it feels high time London got a dedicated club for queer comedy

Evening Standard

Kemah Bob: ‘I get so much bad advice from men who’ve never done comedy before’

The comedian and podcaster on the charms of British sitcoms, starting her own club night and hot new talent on the circuit

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: too much Tucci on the telly? Never!

Man of the moment Stanley Tucci continues his foodie tour of Italy with booze for breakfast. Plus: a great hour of Black comedy in Just Jokes. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Kemah Bob and her brilliantly diverse FOC IT UP! podcast are blowing the doors of comedy wide open

The Texan comic says the comedy scene doesn’t cater for all audiences - or comics

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