Find out about Darren’s Visceral Tour Dates for 2019
Open Your Davent Calendar with Darren
Darren has done a festive special for Dave’s Davent Calendar Series.
Darren to Battle Stephen Bailey in Comedy Central’s Roast
Darren makes his Comedy Central Roast Battle debut against Stephen Bailey.
Darren to Star in ITV2’s New Hip-Hop Gameshow
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Review: Visceral, Edinburgh by The Wee Review
‘Darren Harriott begins his show with a series of rapid-fire, exuberant jokes about growing up black and working-class and his current life, from iron-on logos to dealing with his crackhead flatmate. However, whilst this would be enough for many other comedians, Harriott instead uses these topics as a springboard to comment on a greater range of subjects…… Visceral not only showcases Harriott’s …
Interview: Evening Standard | ‘I’m OK if audiences hate me, what I don’t want is pity’
You could describe Darren Harriott as relentlessly upbeat. And he has good reason to be upbeat. In the past year his stand-up comedy career has taken off. He was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer and since then has made a major impact on Live at the Apollo and, this month, Mock The …
Review: Evening Standard | Contrarian with a compelling back story
If you are going to talk about your life it helps if you have a compelling back story. Darren Harriott has hinterland with knobs on. His Rastafarian father was a drug dealer who committed suicide in prison: “My family tree is a cannabis plant,” he chuckles in his breakthrough debut show, Defiant. Harriott, 28, is passionate, articulate, witty and bursting with streetwise …
Review: The Guardian | Perky gags about Corbyn, the Queen and Rastafarianism
The Edinburgh award-nominated standup develops a cheery rapport with the audience in this promising first show. If you want tragicomedy that cuts deep – or, for that matter, a misery memoir – Darren Harriott has got the raw material for it. But that’s not what he chooses to deliver with his maiden solo show, Defiant. Yes, he alludes to his …
Review: The Sunday Times | Darren Harriott has enough pain and enough funny to be the Brits’ Richard Pryor
The British funny man is not your average comedian. In autumn last year, Darren Harriott met Michael McIntyre at a gig where he was warming up new material. McIntyre had heard that Harriott had been nominated for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2017, for his show Defiant, which played in a cramped little venue known as the Attic. …