Angel Comedy Club online Comedians led by Jordan Brookes and Tim Key turn lockdown worries into riffs on parenting, personality and body hair in a night of infectious live fun“Let’s do it. Tonight. Let’s fix mental health.” That’s Jordan Brookes talkin…
Continue ReadingWe asked funny people for their favourite bits of the web. For Scottish comic Daniel Sloss, in Australia for the comedy festivals, it’s mostly on YouTubeI’m a 30-year-old stand-up comedian who has grown up with it and never known anything else, so it’s…
Continue ReadingHe started out learning his craft on a school work experience programme. Now the comic is about to make history with the first standup special from Africa.It’s not every day a comedian can claim to have made history. Step forward Loyiso Gola, whose new…
Continue ReadingThe After Life and PRU star and comic recounts her love of anarchic late night live TV, from Friday Night Live to The Word There was a lot more live telly on when I was growing up in the 80s. It all seemed to come to an end once the likes of Shaun Ryde…
Continue ReadingIn the second of our two-parter, rock stars, roadies, actors, dancers, composers and comics describe how their lives have been transformed without live shows – and imagine what now lies ahead‘The nation needed a rescue from despair’: Part 1 of culture’…
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineJust the Tonic’s three-hour standup sprawl comes close to the comedy club experience, featuring Matt Forde’s Boris tribute and Jason Byrne’s toilet trumpet alongside Vegas“A year into lockdown, here we are,” says Just the Tonic supremo …
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineRussell Kane saves the day with energetic Covid gags as technical issues and uninspired material blight the first edition of a new standup seriesLIVENow has streamed “a string of successful live concerts”, blared the publicity, by the l…
Continue ReadingThe comedian, standup, writer, and actor on the things that make him laugh the mostDave Chappelle at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2015. In terms of cold, hard, audience-in-the-palm-of-their-hand standup grandmastery, I’ve never seen anything like it. Cont…
Continue ReadingThe award-winning live artist and writer on the things that make her laugh the mostNeil Hamburger gets me every single time. It’s so dumb, but in its repetition it becomes so amazing. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment …
Continue ReadingThe actor and comic on making her female pronouns permanent, shouting down abuse, enduring a marathon a day – and running for Labour Eddie Izzard doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. In December, it was reported that the standup comic/actor/c…
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