Comedy duo will take the stage together in the West End for the first time in 17 years in Cinderella alongside Julian ClaryDawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to return to the stage together for the first time in 17 years to play the Ugly Sisters in …
Continue ReadingBrighton Corn Exchange The fantastically confident standup is a blast from the start with her takes on menopause, parenting and her upbringingModel, actor, journalist, comedian: no doubting Michelle De Swarte is a jack of all trades, but is she a maste…
Continue ReadingA turd-hurling incident set comedian Rowan Thambar on a path to find out what makes good neighbours – by inviting people to document the good, bad and ugly of their own experiencesLast year I saw my neighbour throw dog poo at a man. It happened while m…
Continue ReadingA turd-hurling incident set comedian Rowan Thambar on a path to find out what makes good neighbours – by inviting people to document the good, bad and ugly of their own experiencesLast year I saw my neighbour throw dog poo at a man. It happened while m…
Continue ReadingThe first time Kind starred in Nazi-spoof The Producers, he lost 30lb. Is he – and the West End – ready for his return? And why is he so worried about his old flatmate George Clooney?Richard Kind has played everything from a child’s imaginary friend in…
Continue ReadingThe comedian, TV presenter and Bake Off alum gushes about the joy of silence, an awkward encounter with Shane Warne, and getting recognised during a colonoscopyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe premise of your new standup show, Fun Show xx…
Continue ReadingSNL is a US comedy institution – can a British version rise to the challenge of finding the funny in our comparatively beige politicians every week? We speak to the team hand-picked to do just thatIt is the calm before the storm. The storm being the im…
Continue ReadingThe Australian comedian on why they became a sock puppet, a message in a potato, and meeting Anna KendrickYou recently released a free standup special, Woof!, where you are a sock puppet. I guess the question would be – why?I just got sick of being see…
Continue ReadingThe Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby sits down with Guardian Australia’s deputy culture editor Sian Cain to chat about why they became a sock puppet, meeting Anna Kendrick, and a potato that was thrown onstage housing a strange request Continue readin…
Continue ReadingThe comic on cleaning up her language for family audiences, writing her debut novel and praying before taking the stageHow did you get into comedy?After my second divorce, I was online looking for a walking group in my local area and I got a pop-up tha…
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