From dazzling comic debuts at the Edinburgh fringe to occult sketches, soul-searching standup and deeply strange revelations, it was a top year for laughing matters
September 2022
Kim Noble: Lullaby for Scavengers review – strange, tender and endlessly funny
‘It could have some negative pushback’: has extreme comedian Kim Noble finally gone too far?
June 2021
The funniest thing
Kim Noble: ‘I covered an Introduction to Schopenhauer in batter once then ate it’
The comedian and artist on the things that make him laugh the most
February 2021
Best podcasts of the week
A thoughtful look at love and sex – podcasts of the week
Jacob Hawley hosts On Love, a follow-up to his series On Drugs. Plus: politics meets rock music, and Reply All investigate the unrest at food website Bon Appétit
August 2020
Best podcasts of the week
A blackly comic quest for the meaning of life – podcasts of the week
Lockdown culture
Kim Noble: Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) review – twisted and tender
March 2015
Comedy heroes
Shazia Mirza on Kim Noble: he smashes every rule of comedy
Kim Noble exposes himself on stage – sometimes literally – in an act that is shocking, frightening, unethical and hilarious
February 2015
Kim Noble: You’re Not Alone review – a dark and often troubling performance
Kim Noble’s latest offering explores male loneliness, old age and the bleakness of existence to unsettling, almost embarrassing effect
January 2015
Kim Noble: ‘I haven’t killed anyone, honest’
On the eve of his new show You’re Not Alone, the performer talks to Brian Logan about recording his neighbours’ sex life, defecating in a church and giving out his ex-girlfriend’s number. Is there more to his comedy than shock?
August 2014
Edinburgh 2014 review: Kim Noble – exploring the sweet sadness of existence
Noble's guerrilla theatre piece runs the gamut from the unethical and troubling to random acts of kindness and real tenderness, writes Lyn Gardner
December 2009
Kim Noble Will Die
Soho, London This multimedia journal of one man's suicidal impulse is either a dark masterpiece that yields coruscating insights into the depressive mind, or it's a wallow in sensation-seeking self-pity, writes Brian Logan
August 2004
Noble and Silver
Pod Deco, Edinburgh
November 2002
The goat's in it. But what about the rest?
Comedy: If Noble and Silver's work is 'about' anything, it's about subverting categories, so presumably it's all part of their plan that the most common response to their work is: 'It's not really comedy, is it?'
November 2001
But is it comedy?
Noble and Silver would rather show an arty video than make you laugh. Brian Logan meets a very unusual comic double act.
