"Straitjacket are the next great sketch show."
"...all their pieces share an inspired silly/absurd tone that is as precious as it is rare."
Bob Odenkirk (Mr Show, Saturday Night Live)

"Would grace any TV sketch show."
Henry Normal, Baby Cow

"...the north east might have just produced a comic troupe we can be proud of"
"The straitjacket sketches boast a number of bizarre and original ideas"
Andrew Richardson,  Narc Magazine (link)

"Straitjacket have a dark and surreal style of their own that comes somewhere near Lee and Herring.
Three Weeks

"Side Splitting Sunderland talents."
Degrees North Magazine (link)

“Catch them before they hit the big time”
The Crack (link)

“Set for Radio Glory”
Sunderland Echo (link)

“An intelligent and genuinely witty cast of characters…laden with subtle, dry irony and a pinch of the bizarre”
“Provoking laugh out loud moments and satire in every scene, Straitjacket embody the idea that there is nothing funnier or stranger than reality itself.”
Degrees North Magazine (link)

“The Big Time is Beckoning”
Shields Gazette (link)