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Jerry Sadowitz

August 2023

  • Security on stage as Graham Spiers interviews the MP Joanna Cherry at the New Town theatre, Edinburgh.

    ‘It’s a zeitgeist-capturer’: climate crisis and trans rights are talk of Edinburgh festival

    Walkout by authors over fossil fuel links plus controversies about identity, racism and sexism are hot topics at politically charged event

November 2022

  • Jerry Sadowitz performing at Soho theatre

    Jerry Sadowitz: Not for Anyone review – an evening of incessant offence

    After his show was pulled from the Edinburgh fringe, the comic continues his efforts to outrage, resulting in deep discomfort as well as bleak brilliance

October 2022

  • ‘The show was fine. I overran by 15 minutes and you don’t do that unless it’s going well’ … Sadowitz.

    Jerry Sadowitz on his Edinburgh ban: ‘Cancel culture isn’t a culture. It’s a diktat that’s been imposed on us’

    When his show was pulled this summer over reports of nudity, sexism and racism, it caused a furore. In his first major interview since, the comedian explains why he will never tone down his splenetic act

August 2022

  • Jerry Sadowitz

    Jerry Sadowitz and the shifting boundaries of free speech

  • Steve Bell 17.08.2022

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Steve Bell on the Tory hustings in Scotland – cartoon

  • Brian Logan

    Who went too far: Jerry Sadowitz or those who cancelled his Edinburgh fringe show?

    Brian Logan
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    Jerry Sadowitz hits back after show cancelled: ‘My act is being cheapened’

  • Jerry Sadowitz show cancelled over ‘extreme racism, homophobia and misogyny’

  • Jerry Sadowitz Edinburgh fringe standup show axed due to complaints

June 2017

  • Jerry Sadowitz

    Penn & Teller's smug shtick and Sadowitz's twisted tricks: magicians conjuring with comedy

    The American duo’s slick act shimmers with Vegas-style glitz, while the Scottish standup’s sleight of hand is as flabbergasting as his vicious jokes

July 2016

  • Simon Munnery 1 credit Edward Moore

    The funniest thing
    Simon Munnery: ‘I laughed so hard I fell off the toilet’

    From Brass Eye to his homemade lightbulb suit, the comedian reveals the things that make him chuckle

January 2015

  • Aisling Bea

    This week's new live comedy
    This week’s new live comedy

    Aisling Bea | Jerry Sadowitz | Slapstick Festival

January 2014

  • Jerry Sadowitz

    Jerry Sadowitz: my fight for my friend

    Comic Jerry Sadowitz denounced Jimmy Savile years before he was exposed. Now, writes Brian Logan, he's asking why the death of his friend Mark Blanco has never been properly investigated

December 2013

  • Smashie and Nicey

    Shortcuts
    Will it always be 'too soon' to make jokes about Jimmy Savile?

    Brian Logan: In live comedy no one feels any further need to apologise for using material about Operation Yewtree. But should they?

December 2012

  • Sheeps Festive Bash

    This week's new live comedy
    This week's new live comedy

    Sheeps Festive Bash | Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People | Jerry Sadowitz: Return Of The Bawbag

  • Jerry Sadowitz

    Jerry Sadowitz – review

    Sometimes Sadowitz's misanthropy is just crude. Sometimes, it's vividly inventive, writes Brian Logan

  • Comedian Jerry Sadowitz at Soho theatre

    Jerry Sadowitz attacks offensive comedians – for stealing his material

    Scottish comedian says he 'searched deep' to create taboo-busting material and is not amused by comics who follow suit

November 2011

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    Jerry Sadowitz: his dark materials

    Think Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle are offensive? Then you won't have the stomach for standup Jerry Sadowitz. Their vitriol is fake, he tells James Kettle: his is the real deal

February 2011

  • Jerry Sadowitz with John Barry

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    I was John Barry's No 1 fan, says Jerry Sadowitz

    The comedian Jerry Sadowitz was thrilled when he could sit in on an album recording with his idol, the late John Barry

January 2010

  • Jerry Sadowitz

    Leicester Square, London
    Offensive, misanthropic but fearlessly funny, Jerry Sadowitz returns to shore up his supremacy in no-holds-barred standup, writes Brian Logan
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