About

Urban Comedy Review is an editorial publication about how comedy works as writing and storytelling. It is for curious readers who want to look past whether a joke made them laugh and notice the decisions that shaped it.

What we cover

We examine jokes, characters, scenes, comic forms and performance. A piece might trace how a setup creates an expectation, compare two ways to structure a sketch or explain why a character's particular blind spot keeps causing trouble. The aim is to make each subject clear without flattening its pleasures.

Who it is for

The publication is for readers, writers and performers interested in comedy, whether they are starting to think about craft or already enjoy taking stories apart. No specialist vocabulary is required; when a term helps, we explain it in ordinary language.

How we approach it

We focus on specific choices and explain what those choices do. We distinguish interpretation from fact, avoid presenting one comic taste as universal and favour examples and ideas readers can apply to their own viewing, reading or writing.