Tania Lacy review – a bittersweet ode to the trappings of fame

Available onlineLacy’s tales about her time on Aussie TV may leave Britons bemused but her show finds its feet with a smart outlook on celebrityTania Lacy’s standup show, Catch a Falling Star, is performed to an empty room and available on demand throu…

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Chi With a C review – YouTuber brings Ab Fab and Killing Eve skits to big screen

Rio Cinema, LondonLucia Keskin’s sense of fun and breakout potential radiates from these sketches shown at the Blue Tick festivalThere are leaps required of artists in this week’s Blue Tick festival, showcasing internet comedy on the big screen. It’s a…

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Chi With a C review – YouTuber brings Ab Fab and Killing Eve skits to big screen

Rio Cinema, LondonLucia Keskin’s sense of fun and breakout potential radiates from these sketches shown at the Blue Tick festivalThere are leaps required of artists in this week’s Blue Tick festival, showcasing internet comedy on the big screen. It’s a…

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Phil Wang review – standup’s Netflix special skewers PC panic, Covid racism and himself

NetflixWang studs his special with memorable one-liners that dissect his feminist pretensions, the fear of ageing and UK perceptions of east AsiaFrom the other side of a global pandemic, here comes Phil Wang’s maiden Netflix special. Due for a spring 2…

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Phil Wang review – standup’s Netflix special skewers PC panic, Covid racism and himself

NetflixWang studs his special with memorable one-liners that dissect his feminist pretensions, the fear of ageing and UK perceptions of east AsiaFrom the other side of a global pandemic, here comes Phil Wang’s maiden Netflix special. Due for a spring 2…

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Still game: Edinburgh’s 2021 fringe is a return to the festival’s roots

This August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spiritOn the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. This time last year, he and his photographer b…

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Still game: Edinburgh’s 2021 fringe is a return to the festival’s roots

This August the Scottish capital is much quieter but performers and audiences at this modest jamboree are full of spiritOn the wall in my kitchen is a calendar made by Edinburgh theatre critic Thom Dibdin. This time last year, he and his photographer b…

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Comic Alistair Green on his middle England satire: ‘I don’t want to be really mean’

From foul-mouthed ad spoofs to reading Fifty Shades to his gran, the ‘front-facing camera comic’ has become a legend in his own living roomEven if he wanted to, Alistair Green can’t redecorate his living room. The plain white walls that backdrop the co…

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Comic Alistair Green on his middle England satire: ‘I don’t want to be really mean’

From foul-mouthed ad spoofs to reading Fifty Shades to his gran, the ‘front-facing camera comic’ has become a legend in his own living roomEven if he wanted to, Alistair Green can’t redecorate his living room. The plain white walls that backdrop the co…

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Edinburgh festival kicks off – in pictures

Photographer Murdo MacLeod has been photographing rehearsals and preparations for this year’s much-reduced programme of the Edinburgh festival, which opened on Saturday Continue reading…

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