Reviews

The Best Medicine Tour - 2008

Bristol Review - Laughter is the best medicine - 22 April 2008

If laughter really is the best medicine, then we should be calling Dave Spikey Doctor Dave.

Dave Spikey - The Best Medicine: Colston HallThe silver-haired joker will be known to millions of television viewers for starring in hit Channel 4 sitcom Phoenix Nights, which he also co-wrote with fellow comedian Peter Kay [Read More]

Opera House Review - 20 April 2008

If laughter really is the best medicine then we should be calling Dave Spikey 'Doctor Dave' as even crippled lepers would have bounced out the Opera House after tonight.

Spikey's 'Best Medicine' tour has been scaling the length of the country since the beginning of February but not at any point of his 29th performance, does he seem feel rehearsed or tired out [Read More]

Victoria Theatre Halifax - 14 April 2008

We don't always take Lancashire folk to our hearts in Yorkshire. But we certainly made an exception in Calderdale this weekend.

Mind you, the man in question, stand-up comic (doctor) Dave Spikey, is becoming a bit of a national treasure.

If you follow the Bolton comic's train of thought that laughter is the best medicine (that's the name of his current tour) then he must be saving the ailing NHS thousands of pounds [Read More]

Grand Opera House York - 8 April 2008

Dave Spikey prescribed two hours of laughter to captivate the packed Grand Opera House.

With a humour similar to that of Peter Kay - not surprising as they co-wrote Phoenix Nights - he showed Sunday night's audience that humour lies in the antics of everyday life. His impressions of the "slip and trip" adverts, Jeremy Kyle and "dobbers" had the whole audience, which was a good mix of age groups and backgrounds, in hysterics [Read More]

Cheltenham Town Hall - 28 March 2008

He worked in the NHS for 30 years so Dave Spikey has plenty of funny stories from his hospital days to make a stand-up show about.

But his Best Medicine routine not only included daft tales from the world of medicine, but also funny headlines from the Gloucestershire Echo, the stupidity of song lyrics, holiday fashions, memories of growing up in the north of England and the uses of Cillit Bang [Read More]

Dave Spikey @ The Lowry - 17 March 2008

PERHAPS you wouldn’t expect 32 years climbing the career ladder in the serious world of medicine to be the perfect opening into stand-up comedy.

Or perhaps, like Dave Spikey, you’d plunge the needle into the proverbial vein and draw out any story worth a titter. Laughter is, as they say, the best medicine [Read More]

Comedy fans feel sharp end of wit - 17 March 2008

WHILE most would recognise Dave Spikey as 'the compere without compare' Jerry St Clair in the brilliant Phoenix Nights , the comedian has actually spent more than a decade honing his skills on the stand-up circuit. And out on the road with his latest tour, Spikey has never been sharper. The old adage 'laughter is the best medicine' was the theme of a fast-paced show ("It was my dad's favourite saying, which is why when I was six I nearly died with diphtheria.") and for two hours the audience were in stitches as Dave delivered a hefty dose. Poking fun at everything from opportunistic couples on A Place In The Sun to the great unwashed on Jeremy Kyle, Spikey's targets came thick and fast with a well-oiled delivery that got better with every punchline [Read More]

King George's Hall, Blackburn - 7 March 2008

Those who may only have seen the Chorley-based comedian on TV in shows such as Eight Out of 10 Cats won't fully appreciate quite how quick-witted and observant a comedian he really is.

The stage is his natural setting, allowing him the freedom to head off into a world populated by Dobbers (you'll understand if you were there) where the comments have you thinking and laughing at the same time [Read More]

Healthy dose of rib-tickling remedies - 5 March 2008

I certainly felt a lot better after seeing his Best Medicine show, which he played to a packed audience.

Best known for appearing as Jerry St Clair alongside Peter Kay in Phoenix Nights and on panel quiz 8 Out of 10 Cats, the Lancashire comic is every bit as funny live as he is on TV [Read More]