NetflixRather than explore the blind spots within modern gender and racial thinking, the comedian’s latest special triples down on the phobia‘I’m going all the way,” is Dave Chappelle’s refrain through this last in his run of Netflix specials. It’s a b…
Continue ReadingBloomsbury theatre, LondonThe comedian is on ebullient form in a gossipy touring show about entering one’s seventh decadeYou can understand why Jenny Eclair might focus her standup on the experience of turning 60. Comedy stages are not exactly teeming …
Continue ReadingFor character comics such as Zach Zucker, Bilal Zafar and Jay Bennett, performing as other people is a way to both escape from – and confront – their personal livesAfter an eventful 18 months away, Zach Zucker is back on a London stage, and making a me…
Continue ReadingLondon PalladiumChris and Rosie Ramsey’s material about their married life is jolly enough, but a five-minute advertorial is rather less soIt has 65m downloads and counting. It claims the record for the biggest live podcast audience ever. It sold out t…
Continue ReadingLondon PalladiumThe veteran provocateur, with his usual equal offensiveness policy, is amusing when he isn’t railing at straw men in this revival of his 2019 show Supernature“I’m a white heterosexual millionaire,” says Ricky Gervais, and as such, in a …
Continue ReadingWith the plagiarism claim against him, Kae Kurd joins an illustrious list of alleged copycatsIt’s no joke: standups in legal row over ‘stolen’ comedy routineThe most notable thing about the plagiarism row raging between Kae Kurd and Darius Davies is th…
Continue ReadingRoyal and Derngate, Northampton The spiritual comedian’s lofty aspirations make way for funny riffs on fatherhood and lockdown in a self-ridiculing setAre we here for laughs, or spiritual healing? Both, Russell Brand seems to think, apologising for the…
Continue ReadingThe standup, most famous for Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, could make the familiar feel strange and newNorm Macdonald, former SNL cast member, dies at 61It was Frank Skinner who first brought my attention to Norm Macdonald. Years ago – I can’t…
Continue ReadingShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe Mock the Week man clearly enjoys his turn on the prestige stage, and Jen Brister, Athena Kugblenu and Nina Conti are able supporting playersIf you must enter the stage hobbling, a cane tapping the ground at your side, you…
Continue ReadingShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe Mock the Week man clearly enjoys his turn on the prestige stage, and Jen Brister, Athena Kugblenu and Nina Conti are able supporting playersIf you must enter the stage hobbling, a cane tapping the ground at your side, you…
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