London publications are touting the comedic talents of some homegrown Chicago talent. "Yanks a Lot for the Transatlantic Laughs" and "American Making a Real Impact" give you lots of dish on the "Yankin' It team of American comedians" who are playing the Leicester Comedy Festival.

"Steve O Harvey kicked off, a big man getting bite-sized laughs out of his theory that his partner was drawn to him because he is '95 per cent pillow.' Mike Bridenstine packed lots into his entertaining 10 minutes, mostly bizarre catchphrases and embittered tirades against Missy Elliot and Pamela Anderson. The name attraction, however, was Renee Gauthier, who played Victoria Beckham's Ugly Betty-ish PA in 2007's mock-doc Coming To America...Gauthier is a sassy stand-up who claimed that she had prepared for us by watching Bridget Jones before delivering amiable stories about drugs, mums and being tongue-tied on meeting Kelly Clarkson...Ken Barnard, a promising skinny oddball, closed by reading from the novelisation of Rocky III. Kyle Kinane was a bleak, misanthropic Ernest Hemingway lookalike with a penchant for suicide jokes."