Reviews (in no particular order)

(For Edinburgh Reviews click here.)

"Gig Of The Week"

Yorkshire Evening Press, June 2000
(regarding A Man Called Martin's York preview)

"Inexplicable are an indeterminate number of comedians of whom four reached last night's somewhat chilly stage. Jim Gillingham has stage presence and was a strong compere, as well as performing sketches with Sam Al-Hamdani; Kris Dyer and Dave Marks are national stand up comedians semi-finalists who battled gamely with the discocertingly lare arrival of the audience. Dave has good comedy timing and Kris a fine repertoire of voices and the gags were often refreshingly unarch."

The Yorkshire Evening Press. February 4th 1998.

" …surreal and inventive "inexplicable" have created a new language of comedy . . . No Full Stops is an exciting departure from the usual standard of student humour . . . from the inspired Beatles-Bolsheviks biography, utilising a large video projection of the group's history, to the endearingly insane apocalyptic whoop of absurdity at the close, "inexplicable" proved to be both intelligent and hilarious . . . perhaps the only criticism one could make is that at times they were overly ambitious …"

POINT SHIRLEY, University Arts Magazine, June 18th 1998.

"A cruelly perceptive side-swipe at academia […] which left half of the audience rolling in the aisles whilst the other half obediently took notes […] the performances were played brilliantly straight throughout, to the extent that it was unclear as to where the joke ended and reality began […] this group of young comics are the most awesomely talented for a very long time"

NOUSE, University Newspaper, June 27th 1999

"Brilliant"

Peter Kay

"Wonderfully distinctive style"

Boothby Grafoe

"Kris Dyer fairly stole the show; his banana eating scene was a classic comedy moment"

NOUSE, June 31st.1999

"Kris Dyer has the finest comic grimaces this side of an ITV sitcom"

NOUSE, December 2nd 1998

"James Gillingham is a genius" *

JR Gillingham, May 1st 2000

© 1999 ...inexplicable...