"Kendall has the slickness and originality to be great"
Metro

"She has that X Factor which makes a great comedian"
The Scotsman

"A lesson in how comedy should be staged"
The Sunday Times

"She can move from deadpan wit to daft, stage consuming physical comedy in a sentence"
Metro

"A beautifully structured, charming show...somebody must have sprinkled comedy fairy dust on her"
The Times

"This Aussie wizard is pure comedy gold"
The List

"Sarah Kendall is about the best young stand up around"
The Herald

"She is naturally funny...the most hilarious monologues you'll see at the fringe"
Three Weeks

"Funny and self-deprecating, irreverently political with a big dollop of surrealism...her humour is never less than intelligent, but she's not above clowning around."
Fest

"Sarah Kendall makes it all look like a doddle. All smiles and no-nonsense charm, she let's an audience relax into their seats - then wallops 'em" ****
Metro

"Her intelligence separates Kendall from the pack"
The List

"Kendall killed"
Hollywood Reporter

"A terrific writer with a towering presence"
The Stage

"Her timing is split-second perfect and her content the kind of intelligent humour you only dream of encountering"
The Herald

"Blaming compulsive lying on your anti-social inner voices is nothing new in comedy. But Sarah Kendall gives gaffe and faux pas master classes, miming rich silver linings from self-induced mushroom clouds..."

"Dubiously talented at making universal failings seem like her own idiosyncrasies, Kendall has everyfool appeal that keeps familiar difficulties, such as forgetting names at parties, amusing. And she offers life coaching tips that any mischief-maker would adopt if they had the confidence, including a nice one about impersonating authors on buses. An observation on Liza Minnelli surprises with the ugly beauty of it's truth..."

"The disappointment is palpable when she does draw matters to a close."****
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman

"You've gotta love Sarah Kendall. No really, you have. Her press snaps just don't do her justice: the kooky folk singer look doesn't really convey the warmth she radiates on stage. 'I'm an idiot sometimes, you must know what that feels like?' Not a new comedy tactic perhaps, but one that instantly endears Kendall to her audience. She is sweet and kind of weird, but this is no dumb blonde (well, ginger, to be exact). She clearly has that X factor which makes a great comedian; call it presence, personality or just the balls to stand in front of a room full of people and expose at least a little bit of your soul. With Kendall, it's there in spades."

"Hers is a comedy of errors, as she harnesses her moments of doubt, self-loathing and all-too-public stupidity for comedic ends, and it works wonderfully. It's the minutiae of life that often makes the most affecting comedy and you get the feeling the moment that Kendall starts constructing a politically charged routine is the moment she should walk away from the mic."

"Most importantly perhaps, she's bloody funny....Her material is inherently excellent. If Kendall has anything, it's the potential to grow, refining and honing what is intrinsically great- it could result in something quite spectacular."****
Mark Robertson, The List

"Erudite, refined and intelligent, Sarah Kendall provides a solid hour of gags with brains."
The Herald

"There is nothing groundbreaking about her defiantly non-gender- specific show which reaches the Fringe this week. With others this might be a criticism, but in Kendall's case it is a compliment. She is simply a consummate storyteller, utilising an eye for obscure comic detail and an innate ability to craft a narrative arc complete with cunningly effective back-references and running gags...Kendall's loose theme is her social ineptitude and tendency to lie for no good reason. She is very good when unpicking conversational dynamics, noting how we listen politely while waiting for the chance to jump in with our banalities..."

"The high light of the show is a polished riff on how being short- changed by intellectually challenged shop assistants can bring out the psychopathic tendencies in all of us. It is a well-aimed, well-acted piece of thumbnail theatre with a vivid range of voices and gurning. This show should be a must for casting directors looking for gawky characters with wit and charisma..."
Bruce Dessau, The Evening Standard

"Sarah Kendall is about the best young stand-up around...There is always a fresh attitude. She goes for the true humour rather than the obvious with a delightfully surreal approach to the world."****
Tim Abrahams, The Herald

"I'm not sure what Kendall's been up to in the past year, but someone must have sprinkled fairy dust on her at some point...Confident, cheeky, and very funny, she's abandoned the high concept show in favour of an hour of solid, driving stand-up, complete with every variant of joke: puns, quips, gags, sketches- they're all there."
Steven Armstrong, The Sunday Times

"In previous years, Sarah Kendall has focused her show on the issues of mental health in Sarah Kendall is Well Balanced, evolution for Earthling, and war in, well, War. For 2003, this Aussie star is content to riff on less classifiable topics, though she clearly harbours a thing about serial killers and doesn't appear to like children very much. A worrying combination, that."

"Still, if you desperately need to have an act pigeonholed then Kendall is worrying about the past, from the perspective of the future. At least, this is what she does with the key motif of the show, as she takes a break to read letters to herself from a century hence. Her intelligence has been highlighted as the key element which separates Kendall from the pack, but she's not so set in her clever clogs way that she won't indulge in a bit of sick fun. One of her sharper stories (and she has a few) looks at her failure to land an acting role due to a slight misinterpretation of the part she was rehearsing for. The irony of the sketch is that she begins it by declaring how rubbish an actress she is , when this is patently disproved by the ease and skill with which she goes into other characters. Eventually, the stand-up stage may not be big enough to contain Sarah Kendall."****
Brian Donaldson, The List

"Sarah Kendall makes it all look like a doddle. All smiles and no-nonsense charm, she lets an audience relax into their seats- then wallops 'em with bracing amounts of misanthropy."

"She's got her own take on things. It's only as you leave the venue that you realise you haven't really learned anything personal about Sarah Kendall, beyond her fear of growing old and smelling of wee. The letter from her 2073 self, which she uses to structure the hour, is rich with ironies re-incorporated from the rest of the act..."

"So you won't go far wrong here- it's a thoroughly entertaining hour. Kendall has the slickness and originality to be great..."****
Dominic Maxwell, Metro

"Sarah Kendall does her job perfectly: she stands on stage and makes people laugh. Funny and self-deprecating, she is never needy or bitter. Her set is tightly written and everything turns out to be cleverly linked..."

"Kendall is irreverently political with a big dollop of surrealism mixed in, as poo jokes and tales of hyena family life mix seamlessly with rants about the need for 'sky sharks' t make the walk to work more interesting. The tall, flame haired Aussie is young but confident, and her endearing charm and generous presence make her eminently watchable and likeable..."

"Her humour is never less than intelligent, but she's not above pulling faces and clowning around. Interesting, fun and irreverent..."****
Kate Swade, Fest